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-	# Mormo: (Greek) King of the Ghouls, consort of Hecate	+	1. Mormo: (Greek) King of the Ghouls, consort of Hecate
-	# Mormo: Mormo was a minor Greek goddess. She bit naughty children in order to frighten them.	+	2. Mormo: Mormo was a minor Greek goddess. She bit naughty children in order to frighten them.
-	# In Greek mythology, Mormo was a goddess who bit bad children, said to have been a consort of the goddess Hecate.	+	3. In Greek mythology, Mormo was a goddess who bit bad children, said to have been a consort of the goddess Hecate.
	The name was also used to signify a female vampire-like creature in stories told to Greek children by their nurses to keep them from misbehaving.		The name was also used to signify a female vampire-like creature in stories told to Greek children by their nurses to keep them from misbehaving.

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1. Mormo: (Greek) King of the Ghouls, consort of Hecate

2. Mormo: Mormo was a minor Greek goddess. She bit naughty children in order to frighten them.

3. In Greek mythology, Mormo was a goddess who bit bad children, said to have been a consort of the goddess Hecate.

The name was also used to signify a female vampire-like creature in stories told to Greek children by their nurses to keep them from misbehaving.

Mormo was later used as a base for the word Mormon. A prophet who abridged the Book of Mormon which was "translated" in 1829 by Joseph Smith Jr.

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