strix
Noun
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Noun
strix (plural strixes or striges)
- (mythology) A bird-like demon feeding on human flesh and blood.
- 2017, Ronald Hutton, The Witch, Yale University Press 2018, p. 69:
- What was distinctive about the strix was that […] it resembled an owl, or (to a lesser extent) a bat, being a winged, clawed creature, which flew by night and had a hideous screeching cry.
- 2017, Ronald Hutton, The Witch, Yale University Press 2018, p. 69:
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