The Lies Of Men - Empusa Craved Blood

Empusa is a demigoddess of Greek mythology. She was the beautiful daughter of the goddess Hecate and the spirit Mormo.

But she had a dark side and craved blood. She seduced young men as they slept before drinking their blood and eating their flesh.

I met a lady in the meads 

 Full beautiful, a faery’s child; 

Her hair was long, her foot was light, 

 And her eyes were wild.

  She took me to her elfin grot,
 And there she gazed and sighed deep,
And there I shut her wild sad eyes
 So kissed to sleep.

  I saw their starved lips in the gloam
 With horrid warning gaped wide,
And I awoke, and found me here
 On the cold hill side.

  La Belle Dame Sans Merci, John Keats, 1795 - 1821