Editing Empusa (section)

==In fiction==
Empusa is referenced in [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s narrative poem "[[Rudyard Kipling bibliography#Poems|Tomlinson]]".

Empusa is a character in ''[[Faust, Part Two]]'' by [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe|Goethe]]. She appears during the Classical [[Walpurgis Night]] as Mephisto is being lured by the Lamiae. She refers to herself as cousin to Mephisto because she has a donkey's foot and he has a horse's.

''Empusa'' is the name of the ship used by [[Count Orlok]] to travel to Wisborg in [[F. W. Murnau]]'s film ''[[Nosferatu]]'' (1922).

Empusa is a main antagonist turned heroine in the novel ''Grecian Rune'' by James Matthew Byers. They may look like humans at first.

In [[Primal (video game)|''Primal'']], Empusa is among the Wraith-Aristocrates, a fast travelling race of demons, and the wife of the main-antagonist in the third world.

In ''Wicked Wings'' by [[Keri Arthur]], the villains are three empusae who are eating the flesh of their prey. They use the form of a young woman to lure the men to their deaths.