sentences:  A mormolyce is one of several names given to the female "phasma" (phantom) in Philostratus's "Life of Apollonius of Tyana".Mormo is glossed as equivalent to Lamia and "mormolykeion", considered to be frightening beings, in the "Suda", a lexicon of the Byzantine Periods.Mombro () or Mormo are a bugbear (), the "Suda" also says.