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.

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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