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A frightening creature that could assume various shapes and might be compared to the modern imp or a goblin.
In the play Frogs, by Aristophanes, the main character (the god of wine, Dionysus) encounters a phantom creature that he identifies as the she-beast, Empousa, as he and his servant enter the Underworld.
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