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    Description

    The strix is described as a large-headed bird with transfixed eyes, rapacious beak, greyish white wings, and hooked claws in Ovid's Fasti. This is the only thorough description of the strix in Classical literature. E… See more

    Classical tales of bloodthirstiness

    According to Antoninus Liberalis's Metamorphoses, the strīx (στρίξ) was a metamorphosis of Polyphonte; she and her bear-like sons Agrios and Oreios were transformed into birds as punishment for their cannib… See more

    Magical associations

    Pliny's comment that "[strix]...employed in maledictions" signified that its name invoked in "potent" magic curses according to one interpretation, but it may have only been used as curse-word, reflecting its regard as a… See more

    Underworld

    There are striges, vultures, and bubo owls which cry in the marshes in Hades, by the edge of Tartarus according to Seneca the Younger's tragedy Hercules Furens. Also, according to the legend of Otus and Ephialtes, … See more

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