The Roman Strix: The Original Vampire-Witch

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The Roman strix was a blood-drinking, child-devouring nocturnal creature described by Ovid, Horace, and Petronius. Its name became the Italian word for witch (strega), the Romanian word for vampire (strigoi), and the Albanian word for blood-sucking hag (shtriga). One Latin word. Three modern monsters. The trail runs through two thousand years of European fear.

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