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plural strixes or striges
(mythology) A bird-like demon feeding on human flesh and blood. quotations
What was distinctive about the strix was that […] it resembled an owl, or (to a lesser extent) a bat, being a winged, clawed creature, which flew by night and had a hideous screeching cry.
2017, Ronald Hutton, The Witch, Yale University Press, published 2018, page 69