Definition of Striges. Meaning of Striges. Synonyms of Striges

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Definition of Striges

Striges
Striges Stri"ges, n. pl. [L., pl. of strix a streech owl; cf. Gr. ? a screaming night bird.] (Zo["o]l.) The tribe of birds which comprises the owls.

Meaning of Striges from wikipedia

- this as attestation that the striges were regarded as man-eating (anthropophagism). In Ovid's Fasti (8 AD), the striges targeted legendary king Procas...
- gradivo o ukorijenjenosti i životnosti tradicije vezane uz štrige i štrigune u Istri. [...] Štrige i štriguni su najbliži pojmu vještica. Štrigun se rodi...
- heart and the vital parts of the human body. The power to avert vampiric striges, which Ovid attributes to the conflated Cardea-Carna, probably belonged...
- Uccelli non p****eriformi. Studio su varie tendenze evolutive. Part II – Striges, Caprimulgiformes ed Apodiformes ["Cranial kinesis and morphology of non-p****erine...
- Greco-Roman mythology described the Empusae, the Lamia, the Mormo and the striges. Over time the first two terms became general words to describe witches...
- and thus was banished from Eden by God himself) and, much like the Gr**** striges, would prey on young babies and their mothers at night, as well as males...
- gradivo o ukorijenjenosti i životnosti tradicije vezane uz štrige i štrigune u Istri. ... Štrige i štriguni su najbliži pojmu vještica. Štrigun se rodi u...
- Nomenclature of the British Owls, and on the Arrangement of the Order Striges". Ibis. 21 (3): 346–352. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1879.tb07718.x. Konig...
- Razdrtega, 2016, ISBN 9612548889, p.75 Vinšćak, Tomo (December 2005). "On "Štrige", "Štriguni" and "Krsnici" on Istrian Peninsula". Studia ethnologica Croatica...
- with wet hawthorn twigs) and newborn children by the aggression of the striges (in the myth the young Proca). M. Renard sees the ****ociation of J****...