Mormo

(Μορμώ), a female spectre, with which the Greeks used to frighten little children. (Aristoph. Ach. 582, Pax, 474.) Mormo was one of the same class of bugbears as Empusa and Lamia. [L.S]

(Μορμώ) and Mormolycé (Μορμολύκη). A female spectre, whose name was used by the Greeks to frighten children (Aristoph. Ach. 582; Aristoph. Pax, 474; Theoc.xv. 40). cf. Lamiae.