Editing Strzyga (section)

{{Short description|Female demon in Slavic mythology}}
[[File:Strzyga Strix.jpg|thumb|{{lang|pl|Strzyga}}, an artistic vision by Filip Gutowski. Excerpt from The Sarmatian Bestiarium by Janek Sielicki]]
'''{{lang|pl|Strzyga}}''' ({{IPA|pol|ˈstʂɨɡa}}, plural: strzygi, masculine: strzygoń), sometimes translated as '''striga''',<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Piotrowska |first=Michalina |date=2024-12-10 |title=The impact of pronouns on the reception of supernatural creatures in Sapkowski’s short stories |url=https://ojs.academicon.pl/jezykoznawstwo/article/view/8482 |journal=Językoznawstwo |language=en |issue=2/21 |pages=67–73 |doi=10.25312/j.8482 |issn=2391-5137|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Cooper |first=Brian |date=2005 |title=The Word "vampire": Its Slavonic Form and Origin |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24599658 |journal=Journal of Slavic Linguistics |volume=13 |issue=2 |pages=251–270 |issn=1068-2090}}</ref> (which is also the [[latin]] term for it)<ref>{{cite web|author=Jarosław Kolczyński |date=2003 |journal=Etnografia Polska |number=1-2 |page=s. 214 |title=Jeszcze raz o upiorze (wampirze) i strzygoni (strzydze) |url=https://zbiory.cyfrowaetnografia.pl/public/1605.pdf}}<!-- auto-translated from Polish by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> is usually a female demon in [[Slavic mythology]], which stems from the mythological [[Strix (mythology)|Strix]] of [[ancient Rome]] and [[ancient Greece]].{{r|Kolberg}} The demon is similar to a [[vampire]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://bajka.umk.pl/slownik/lista-hasel/haslo/?id=168|title=Strzygoń/strzyga - Polska bajka ludowa. Słownik - red. Violetta Wróblewska|website=bajka.umk.pl|access-date=2019-01-12}}</ref> and is predominantly found in [[Poland|Polish]] and [[Silesia]]n folklore.