Some other suppose, that soules separated from the bodies, were called after this name: Wherby we sée the auncient monuments of tumbes haue bene dedicated to Diis Manibus, to the infernall gods: In the which opinion Apuleius was, as we said a little before.
There are some that iudge Manes, to be the very same, that the old people called Genii, and that there were two of these Manes assigned vnto mens bodies, euen immediately after their begetting, which forsake them not whē they are dead, but continue in the graues after the bodies are consumed. For the which cause, those men who defaced Monuments, were thought to doo wrong vnto the gods called Manes. The soothsayers called as well the celestiall as the infernall gods by the name of Manes, and that because they beléeued (as Festus doth write) that all things did manare, that is, were deriued from them. Other thinke they were so called à manando, of flowing, because the places betwéen the circle of the Moone and the earth, from whence they come, are full of soules.
Maniæ.
Maniæ are deformed creatures, as Festus saith: and also vgly shapes, wherwith nursses make children afraid.
Mormo.
μορμω, is a woman with a face almost of a monstrous fashion: hereof it is taken for a heg: as also μορμοιλύκειον, doth signifie a terrible sight, a spirit, or an elfe. Nicephorus saith in his Ecclesiasticall history, that a woman vsing to walke by night, is called by the name of Gilo.
Lamiæ.
Lamiæ were supposed of the auncient people to be women hauing eies to put out or in at their pleasure, or rather certaine shapes of diuels, which taking on them the shewe of beautifull women, deuoured children and yoong men, allured vnto them with swéete inticements.
Philostratus in his booke Appollonio, writeth a maruellous history or fable of one Menippus, beloued of an hegge. The same authour writeth, that Lamiæ are called of some men Laruæ, spirits walking by night: and Lemurei, night spirits of horrible shapes: and of many Empusa, ghoasts of variable fashion: and that nursses so named them to make their children afraide.
Chrysostomus Dion writeth, that in the inmost part of Affrike are certain wild beasts, hauing the countenance of a woman, which in like manner are called Lamiæ: and he saith that they haue their paps and al the rest of their breast so faire as any Painters wit can deuise, which being vncouered, they deceitfully allure men vnto them, and when they haue taken them, doo forthwith deuoure them.