Oct 30, 2018
nktober2018 Slavic beliefs, 25/31 Strzyga - a female demon somewhat similar to a vampire in Slavic folklore. People who were born with two souls were believed to be strigas. Strigas usually died at a young age, but according to belief, only one of their two souls would pass to the afterlife; the other soul was believed to cause the deceased striga to come back to life and prey upon other living beings. These undead strigas were believed to fly at night in a form of an owl or a black bird and attack night-time travellers and people who had wandered off into the woods at night, sucking out their blood and eating their insides.