Every Major Greek Demon Explained in 35 Minutes

Of all the demons lurking in the Greek imagination, Empusa is perhaps the most unsettling precisely because she looks like something familiar right up until the moment she doesn't. She is a creature of Hecate, the goddess of crossroads, witchcraft, and the in-between spaces where the world gets thin, and that association tells you everything about what Empusa represents: she is the danger hiding inside the ordinary, the monster dressed as a person you might actually stop to talk to.