Mormo
Μορμώ
(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.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.