[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.