- The
strix (plural
striges or strixes), in the
mythology of
classical antiquity, was a bird of ill omen, the
product of metamorphosis, that fed on human...
-
these lamiae and
strigae have
really existed,
which we do not
believe can ever be well proved. I own that
these terms [lamiae and
strigae] are
found in the...
- purpurescent-brown,
densely and
uniformly covered with ochreous-cinereous
strigae; the
outer border ferruginous.
Forewing with four
ordinary small obscure...
- fusco-ferruginous
short strigae and
minute spots. Forewing: base and
posterior area broadly, with a
whitish pale
virescent (greenish) tint; the
strigae and minute...
-
towards the
costa beyond the middle.
There are also
indistinct very
oblique strigae from the
costa before the
middle and at two-thirds,
indicated by scattered...
- the
length of the wing, are two straight, transverse, chestnut-fulvous
strigae,
which shade gradually into the pale
ground colour.
There is
another abbreviated...
- each
segment between the
dorsal white lines; a pair of
silvery lateral strigae on each segment. Fore wing paler; some
silvery streaks on the
median nervure;...
- and
Language 17, no. 1-2. pg 157–174. Wilby, Emma. (2013) "Burchard's
Strigae, the Witches' Sabbath, and
Shamnistic Cannibalism in
Early Modern Europe...
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Hungary (c. 1074–1116, r. 1095–1116)
against the
belief in the
existence of
strigae (De
strigis vero que non sunt, ne ulla
questio fiat)
suggests that they...
-
sometimes rosy tinged, with
numerous transverse dark ferruginous-brown
strigae more or less
broken up into
series of dots. The
costal edge is pale rosy...
