Lamia in popular culture

Lamia makes many appearances in popular culture
* 'Lamia' is one of the Witches in the movie adaptation of Neil Gaiman's novel Stardust. In the novel she is not named, though called the "Witch Queen". In the movie, she is portrayed by Michelle Pfeiffer. It is also the name of a woman who takes people's heat in Gaiman's novel Neverwhere.
* Lamias are also mentioned in Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series and the novels of Rob Thurman.
* Lamia feature in the Tim Powers novel The Stress of Her Regard as chthonic vampires that both inspire and prey upon poets such as Keats, Byron, and Shelley.
* On the Genesis concept album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, the hero Rael has an encounter with "three vermilion snakes of female face", related in the track The Lamia. At the end of the song the Lamia taste Rael's blood and then die.
* Lamia is a traditional monster in the Final Fantasy game series produced by Square.
* Deis, a character from the Breath of Fire series, is a Lamia.
* Lamia is also mentioned in an Iron Maiden's song entitled "Prodigal Son", which is the 8th track of Iron Maiden's 2nd album, Killers.
* In the manga Fairy Tail there is a guild named Lamia Scale with a crest of a Lamia. The guild is allied with Fairy Tail and another two guilds to defeat Oracion Seis.
* The Lamia is mentioned in the Sam Raimi film Drag Me to Hell voiced by Art Kimbro. This version is depicted as an evil spirit summoned by a curse put on a personal item or memento. It takes three days for the Lamia (described as a fierce, two-legged creature with the head and hooves of a goat) to fully manifest: at first it appears as a malevolent spirit but on the fourth day it comes for the owner of the accursed object and drags him/her into Hell. The only ways to (possibly) stop the Lamia from taking the targeted person to hell in the movie continuity is: a) appease it with a blood offering by sacrificing a small animal, but this isn't always effective; b) summon the Lamia and place into a corporeal body (human, animal, etc.), then kill what it inhabits; and c) give the cursed object to someone else (be they living or dead), and the Lamia will take him or her to Hell instead of the original owner. While stated within the film several times to be called the Lamia, the demon bears a much closer resemblance to the creature Baphomet minus the bird-like wings.
* The Lamia in the book series Night World are born vampires that can choose when they want to stop physically aging. They follow strict rules and live hidden, in the Night World, with the "made" vampires, witches, shape shifters, and werewolves.
* The Lamia is also referred to in Joseph Delaney's "Wardstone Chronicles", featuring the Spooks Apprentice, Spooks Curse, Spooks Secret, Spooks Mistake, Spooks Battle & Spooks Sacrifice although the series as of yet is not complete. In the books the Lamia is a breed of witch from the Mediterranean, mostly Greece. The main character, Tom Ward's mother is a lamia witch, however, in the sixth book in the series it is revealed that she is in fact Lamia, the mother of all Lamia witches. They come in two forms, feral and domestic. Feral lamias are vicious and drink human blood, they can have wings and covered in scales with long sharp talons. The lamias become domestic by being around humans, which causes them to take the form of a beautiful human woman, only recognizable by a line of green and yellow scales down her spine.
* Lamia was a demonic adversary in the television series Poltergeist: The Legacy, cast as a beautiful succubus-type spirit that preyed on men through their dreams. She was captured by the protagonist team in a specially engraved box after an incantation was cast and her name spoken.
* In the Warhammer universe, Lahmia was one of the Nehekharan city-states. It was there the first vampires came to when the ruling class drank from the Elixir of Nagash.
* In the series debut episode of "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" ("The Wrong Path"), a lamia is the main antagonist of a Greek village. Though called the "She-Demon", she has the upper body of an attractive human female (portrayed actress Nicky Mealings), and from the hips down a +30'-long pale-green tail. She was ordered by a goddess to sacrifice the first-born sons of the village for their not worshiping her. The She-Demon uses a long white skirt to hide her tail, thus luring in unawares men, but this makes her imobile as moving about would reveal her true identity as a monster. Then, when they were close enough, she would use the tip of her tail to "sting" them, which killed them instantly and changed their bodies into stone statues. In the episode, one of the villagers seeks out Hercules to kill the She-Demon, but the demi-god is in mourning from the recent loss of his family at the hands of his stepmother Hera. Later, after learning that his friend Iolaus had fought and died in his stead, Hercules goes to the She-Demon's cave and fights her- tricking her into accidentally stinging herself with her own tail (She stung herself as she was attempting to retaliate for him humiliating her.) This turns her to stone, and returns all of her victims to life. She is portrayed as having both superior speed and strength in her tail, overpowering even Hercules' legendary strength.
** H:TLJ was notable for being among the first generation of serialized television shows in the United States to semi-regularly merge CGI with live-action footage. This technique was used to render full-body shots of the She-Demon's tail and the transformation of her victims.
* In the series , Kagome Ririko is a lamia.
* In the 2006 movie Pan's Labyrinth, directed by Guillermo del Toro, the character of the Pale Man borrows much of its personality from the Lamia, including its predeliction for eating children and the ability to remove its own eyes.
* In Paul Torday's novel " The Girl on the Landing" (2009) the Lamia , portrayed as a beautiful dark-haired young woman in a long flowing green dress (snakeskin?) is the hallucination of the principal character's schizophrenia that drives him to commit his atrocities.
* In John C. Wright's ', Lamia appears to molest and threaten Quentin; Quentin's ability to identify and name her is treated as proof that he has not lost his memories.
* In Kathi Appelt's novel The Underneath, Lamia is a character called Grandmother Moccasin.
* Lamia appears in AdventureQuest Worlds. They are found in the Djinn Realm when the players head their to fight Tibicenas. Lamia is shown as a recolored and altered version of Nure-onna.
* The lamia is a type of creature in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, especially known for actively consuming musa acuminata.

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