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The Strix-Witch (Paperback)
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The Strix-Witch (Paperback)
Series: Elements in Magic
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Loot Price R584
Discovery Miles 5 840
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The strix was a persistent feature of the folklore of the Roman
world and subsequently that of the Latin West and the Greek East.
She was a woman that flew by night, either in an owl-like form or
in the form of a projected soul, in order to penetrate homes by
surreptitious means and thereby devour, blight or steal the
new-born babies within them. The motif-set of the ideal narrative
of a strix attack - the 'strix-paradigm' - is reconstructed from
Ovid, Petronius, John Damascene and other sources, and the
paradigm's impact is traced upon the typically gruesome
representation of witches in Latin literature. The concept of the
strix is contextualised against the longue-duree notion of the
child-killing demon, which is found already in the ancient Near
East, and shown to retain a currency still as informing the
projection of the vampire in Victorian fiction.
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