Strix
demonic sky Greek single tradition · 3
A Greek owl that ate human flesh.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
- First attested
- 0 CE
- Attested period
- 0 – 1600
- Historical notes
- Mentioned in a 17th-century exorcism text.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Alectryon, Birds of Ares, Gerana, Diomedes Birds, Caucasian Eagle, Aetos Dios, Alcyone, Alkyonides, Ceyx, Little Owl, Screech Owl, Corone, Corvus, Lycius, Cycnus, Swans of Apollo, Calydonian Boar, Clazomenae Boar, Crommyonian Sow, Erymanthian Boar, Gello, stryggai, Chickcharney, Nyctimene, Sirin
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Strix (Greek) – Owl that ate human flesh.”
#4050 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Strix, birds of ill omen, a product of metamorphosis, that fed on human flesh and blood.”
#4596 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“The strix could be regarded an "unclean spirit" (akátharton pneuma) subject to demonic excorcism, according to an exorcism text recorded by 17th century writer Allatius.”
#6420 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001