[476] Theo. Bent, The Cyclades, p. 496.

[477] Pliny, Nat. Hist. XI. 39.

[478] Hyginus, Fabul. 28, emend. Barth.

[479] Fasti, VI. 131 ff.

[480] The same apparently as the στρίγλος of Hesychius. The Greek peasants are very vague about the names of any birds other than those which they eat.

[481] I. p. 473 (περὶ Στρυγγῶν), Migne, Patrol. Graeco-Lat. vol. XCIV., p. 1604.

[482] The word is εἰσοικίζει which suggests rather the ‘possession’ of children by Striges as by devils. This however could hardly represent fairly the popular belief.

[483] Quoted by Leo Allatius, op. cit. cap. iii.

[484] So also in Albania, Hahn, Alb. Studien, I. 163.

[485] From Πολίτης, Μελέτη κ.τ.λ. pp. 179–181.