Open main menu
Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Incubator escapee wiki
Search
User menu
Talk
Dark mode
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
Strzyga
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
== Etymology and origin == According to [[Aleksander Br眉ckner]], the word is derived from [[Strix (mythology)|Strix]], Latin for owl and a bird-like creature which fed on human flesh and blood in Roman and Greek mythology.<ref name="Kolberg">{{Cite book|title=The People. Their Customs, Way of Life, Language...|last=Kolberg|first=Oskar|year=1882|volume=15|page=24|location=Krak贸w|publisher=Uniwersytet Jagiello艅ski}}</ref> Hungarian ''sztriga'', the Albanian ''[[shtriga]]'' and {{langx|ro|[[strigoi|strig膬]]}} are also [[cognate]] and related. It is unclear how the word {{lang|pl|strzyga}} was adapted by the Polish people, though it might have been through the [[Balkans|Balkan]] peoples. The term {{lang|pl|strzyga}} could also sometimes mean a [[vampire]] or ''upi贸r''.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Mity, podania i wierzania dawnych S艂owian|last=Jerzy.|first=Strzelczyk|date=2007|publisher=Rebis|isbn=9788373019737|edition=Wyd. 2., popr. i uzup|location=Pozna艅|oclc=228025091}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=Jeszcze raz o upiorze (wampirze) i strzygoni (strzydze)|last=Kolczy艅ski|first=Jaros艂aw|date=2003|work=Etnografia Polska}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=Pie艣ni, podania, ba艣nie, zwyczaje i przes膮dy ludu z Mazowsza czerskiego|last=Koz艂owski|first=Kornel|year=1863}}</ref> After the 18th century, there was a distinction between {{lang|pl|strzyga}} and upi贸r; the first one was more connected to witchcraft, while the latter was more of a flying, vampiric creature.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|title=Folklor G贸rnego 艢l膮ska|date=1989|publisher=Wydawn. "艢l膮sk"|others=Simonides, Dorota.|isbn=8321606040|edition=Wyd. 1|location=Katowice|oclc=20935625}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> The {{lang|pl|strzyga}} remained a popular element in the folklore of rural Poland well into the late 19th and early 20th century, as shown by [[W艂adys艂aw Reymont]] in his Nobel Prize-winning novel [[The Peasants|''Ch艂opi'' (The Peasants)]]. Its story takes place during the 1880s in [[Congress Poland]] and follows the everyday life of the peasantry in a typical Polish village. In the tenth chapter of book two, some of the characters gather together to exchange stories and legends, in one of which the striga is described as having a bat's wings (''strzygi z nietoperzowymi skrzyd艂ami przelatuj膮'').<ref>{{cite book|last=Reymont|first=W艂adys艂aw|author-link=W艂adys艂aw Reymont|date=1904|title=Ch艂opi|title-link=The Peasants|location=Warszawa|publisher=Gebethner i Wolff|chapter=Book II: Chapter 10|quote=Po polach b艂膮dzili ciemnych, prze艣wietlonych widziad艂ami, co jak 偶agwie bucha艂y krwaw膮 po偶og膮; na one ruczaje szli srebrne, pe艂ne 艣piewa艅 nierozeznanych, tajemnych wo艂a艅, plusk贸w; w bory zakl臋te, gdzie rycerze, wielkoludy, zamki one; widma straszliwe, smoki piekielnym ogniem zion膮ce; po rozstajach stawali strwo偶eni, gdzie upiory z chichotem przelatywa艂y, gdzie pot臋pionych g艂osem j臋cz膮 wisielce, a strzygi z nietoperzowymi skrzyd艂ami przelatuj膮; b艂膮dzili po mogi艂kach za cieniami pokutuj膮cych samob贸jc贸w; w pustych rozwalonych zamkach i ko艣cio艂ach s艂uchali g艂os贸w dziwnych, patrzeli si臋 niesko艅czonym korowodom mar przera偶aj膮cych, w bojach byli, pod wodami, gdzie 艣pi膮ce jask贸艂ki, popl膮tane w girlandy, budzi o ka偶dej wio艣nie Matka Bo偶a i na 艣wiat wypuszcza.}}</ref>
Edit summary
(Briefly describe your changes)
By publishing changes, you agree to the
Terms of Use
, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 License
and the
GFDL
. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)