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I don't want your cat, you dirty pork queen!!
~ The Lamia while possessing assistant exorcist Milos, rejects Christine's cat sacrifice
I desire the soul of Christine Brown! We will feast upon it as she festers in the grave!
~ The Lamia seeking to take Christine Brown to Hell while possessing Shaun San Dena's body.

The Lamia is the main antagonist of Sam Raimi's 2009 horror film Drag Me To Hell. It is a powerful demon that torments its victims for three days before ultimately manifesting and literally dragging them into Hell: the demon does so as part of a curse placed on Christine Brown by Sylvia Ganush and is almost unstoppable once it has been unleashed. The Lamia is described as "the most feared of all Demons".

The Lamia is an ancient and powerful demon that can be called upon by evil sorcerers or witches, as well as Gypsies who seek revenge on people who have wronged them - once the curse is activated, the Lamia will haunt the victim for three days and nights before it ultimately opens a portal to Hell and drags them into the fiery pit of lost souls to suffer an endless torment at the hands of the evil dead.

It was voiced by Art Kimbro.

History[]

In 1969, the Lamia pursued a young boy known as Juan whose desperate parents took him to the mansion of a powerful Mexican American medium known as Shaun san Dena in hopes she could perform an exorcism and save his soul, in the process they admit he had stolen a silver necklace from the back of a Gypsy wagon and despite them attempting to give it back, the Gypsies refused. Shaun San Dena tried to stop the Lamia but was overpowered as the demon attacked her and the guests, Juan fled in a panic and fell off the balcony to the floor below which soon splintered apart as a portal to Hell opened up and the Lamia dragged the boy screaming to the netherworld, prompting a horrified Shaun to swear that some day she and the Lamia would meet again.

The Lamia would return in the modern age when a young woman named Christine Brown incurred the wrath of an old Gypsy homemaker known as Sylvia Ganush - who cursed one of the buttons of her coat with the Lamia curse, which resulted in the demonic spirit targeting Christine as its next victim, and Ganush accused Christie of shaming her.

Inside of the garage, Ganush brutally attacks Christine inside of her vehicle. After a while, Ganush ends up ripping Christie's button from her coat, and manages to curse it, giving it to Christine. Because of the tragic event, she with her boyfriend Clay ended up talking to a fortune speaker known as Rham Jas, that told Christine that she is being haunted by a evil force. This escalates in Christine being attacked by the entity, multiple hallucinations occur, she even bled from her nose.

Sylvia later died before Christine could find her, making reversing the curse near-to-impossible. Christine went to Mrs. Ganush's former house to make peace with her in order to get rid of the curse, only to find herself at the old Gypsy woman's funeral as it were already too late. Sylvia's granddaughter, Ilenka Ganush, says to Christine that she had it coming because in her mind Christine was the antagonist due to denying her grandmother Sylvia Ganush a home; and now the curse is on Christine's head.

Later, after the recent death of local medium Shaun San Dena who tried to help her remove the curse in a séance but failed, Christine attempted to reverse the curse herself by digging up Sylvia Ganush's grave, and shoving the accursed button into her mouth after first making it a formal gift to her which, according to an old, traditional Gypsy custom as unexplained by seer Rham Jas, is to bestow Gypsy blessings upon the deceased by their loved ones to curry favor the departed's soul for truly the soul never dies.

Unfortunately, Christine had used the wrong envelope, and at the end of the film, the right envelope was given to her by accident by her boyfriend. The curse reactivated and was fulfilled, as Christine was being dragged, screaming, into Hell to burn for ever.

Personality[]

The Lamia is an intensely violent, sadistic, perverted, aggressive and duplicitous monster that takes delight in its gruesome task of hunting down souls and taking them to Hell - it does so for no apparent reason other than malice and for this reason can be considered to have a "Satanic" personality.

The Lamia's cruelty is showcased during the scene when it possesses several people during Shaun's seance - taunting Christine and telling her that she can never appease it, as far as the Lamia is considered, Christine is going to Hell... in the end the Lamia makes good on this threat.

Powers and Abilities[]

You tricked me, you black-hearted whore! You bitch!
~ The Lamia to Christine.

The Lamia is an extremely powerful supernatural entity capable of even altering reality as well as casting horrific illusions and as a demon, can possess animals and people at will, it can track down its victim using a personal item that has been cursed and will torment them endlessly for 3 days before ultimately punching a hole through to our world and literally dragging them to Hell, where they will endure endless agony.

It was capable of animating its own shadow physically, and also altering electronic devices - it reduced the battery charge of a mobile phone from 100% straight down to zero, before projecting its own face across the screen. The Lamia could also telekinetically lock/unlock locks and doors at will. It was also capable of other unknown powers.

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Trivia[]

  • Due to its namesake appearance, the Black Goat (the Lamia) share similarities to the mythological figure Baphomet.
    • In a scene in which Rham Jas is explaining the curse of Lamia, a drawing appears which resembles the Baphomet in it's infamous sitting position.
  • Since The Lamia has the ability of dragging victims into hell, it was probably inspired by the Austrian & German mythological figure known as Krampus, which would reward children which are good, but pull misbehaving children into the underworld.
  • The Lamia's name comes from the serpentine creature in classical Greek mythology of the same name.
  • Although the Lamia has been often referred to as an "it", in the film, the medium Shaun San Dena says "She is coming.", describing the demon as a female. This is also respectively or retrospectively a reference to the mythical Lamia who is a female monster.
  • The Lamia also shares similarities with the Deadites of the Evil Dead franchise (which is also created by Raimi) as they feed on human souls and brings their victims with them to Hell, able to possess humans, transforming them physically, and exercise powers such as levitation. In fact, in the 2013 remake of Evil Dead, when the protagonists browse the Necronomicon, you can see, drawn on one of the pages, a goat figure reminiscent of the Lamia, In fact, in the 2013 remake of Evil Dead, when the protagonists browse the Necronomicon, you can see, drawn on one of the pages, a goat figure reminiscent of the Lamia, but it is not confirmed whether this is a way to connect the two movies or if it's a simple easter egg.
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