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Empusa

Empusa or Empousa (/ɛmˈpjuːsə/; Ancient Greek: Ἔμπουσα; plural: Ἔμπουσαι Empusai) is a shape-shifting female being in Greek mythology, said to possess a single leg of copper, commanded by Hecate, whose precise nature is obscure. In Late Antiquity, the empousae have been described as a category of phantoms or spectres, equated with the lamiai and…

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Empusa

Nodes36
Edges35
Triples29
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.055556
Components1

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related to Life of Apollonius · 12
Empusa → According, Apollonius, By, Greece, In, India, It, Lat, Late Antiquity, Life, Persia, Tyana
related to Aristophanes · 9
Empusa → Aristophanes's, Crates, Greek, Mallus, Onokole, Onoskelis, Sudas, The Empusa, Thus
related to In fiction · 7
Empusa → Classical Walpurgis Night, Faust, Goethe, Lamiae, Mephisto, Part Two, She

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empousa antiquity greek one young men apollonius also aristophanes's woman said leg life shape-shifting hecate thus donkey's foot plural empusai

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gello which has a similar meaninginstance ofcompared to other terms0.80text
Empusarelated to AristophanesThe Empusa0.60section
Empusarelated to AristophanesSudas0.60section
Empusarelated to AristophanesCrates0.60section
Empusarelated to AristophanesMallus0.60section
Empusarelated to AristophanesThus0.60section
Empusarelated to AristophanesAristophanes's0.60section
Empusarelated to AristophanesOnokole0.60section
Empusarelated to AristophanesOnoskelis0.60section
Empusarelated to AristophanesGreek0.60section
Empusarelated to In fictionFaust0.60section
Empusarelated to In fictionPart Two0.60section

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