Editing Empusa (section)

== Modern Greek folklore ==

In modern times, folklore has been collected about a being fitting the description of an ''empousa'': an extremely slender woman with multiple feet, "one of bronze, one a donkey's foot, one an ox's, one a goat's, and one human", but she was referred to as a woman with the lamia-like body and gait. The example was from [[Arachova]] (Parnassus) and published by {{illm|Bernhard Schmidt (philologist){{!}}Bernhard Schmidt|de|Bernhard Schmidt (Philologe)}} (1871).<ref>{{cite book|last1=Schmidt |first1=Bernhard |title=Das volksleben der Neugriechen und das hellenische alterthum |volume=1 |publisher=B.G. Teubner |year=1871 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9rEOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA133 |page=133|quote="έχει κορμί τής Λάμνιας ή πώς περβατεί σαν τη Λάμνια.. mehr als zwei und zwar verschiedenartig gebildete Füsse hat, der eine ist von Erz, der andere ist ein Eselsfuss, wieder ein anderer ein Ochsenfuss, ein Ziegenfuss, ein Menschenfuss u. s. w."}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=West |first=M.L. |author-link=<!--M.L. West--> |title=TRAGICA III |journal=Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies of the University of London |volume=26 |year=1979 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RFITm2BmZKYC&q=Arachova|page=116<!--104–117-->}}</ref> Schmidt only speculated that oral lore of ''empousa'' might survive somewhere locally.{{sfnp|Schmidt|1871|p=141}} A field study (Charles Stewart, 1985) finds that ''empousa'' is a term that is rarely used in oral tradition, compared to other terms such as ''[[gello]]'' which has a similar meaning.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Stewart|first=Charles|author-link=<!--Charles Steward--> |title=The Exotica: Greek Values and their Supernatural Antitheses |journal=ARV. Scandinavian Yearbook of Folklore |volume=41 |year=1985 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EKbYAAAAMAAJ&q=gello|page=62<!--37–64-->|isbn=9789122008873}}</ref>