Gello
Gello ( Greek Γελλώ ) is in Greek mythology the spirit of a girl who has died unmarried and who attacks and kills virgins, pregnant women and small children. It resembles the Lamia and the Mormo , as well as the Strigae of Roman mythology .
Gello is published for the first time by Sappho . The fear of Gello persists until late antiquity (e.g. in the Kyranids ) and the Byzantine period. Even today the belief in Gello is said to have endured in rural areas of Greece.
literature
- Sarah Iles Johnston: Gello. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 4, Metzler, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-476-01474-6 , column 897 f.
- Franz Richter : Strigae . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 4, Leipzig 1915, Sp. 1552–1554 ( digitized version ).
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Gelo . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,2, Leipzig 1890, column 1610 ( digitized version ).
- DR West: Gello and Lamia: Two Hellenic Daemons of Semitic Origin. In: Ugarit-Forschungen 23 (1991), pp. 361-368