The Strix-Witch

Daniel Ogden (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

75 Seiten

2021
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-94882-1 (ISBN)

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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-durée 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.

1. The Roman Strix: Terminology and Texts; 2. The Motif-set and Paradigm; 3. Roman Witches: The Impact of the Strix-Paradigm; 4. The Longue Durée: Greece and the Near East; 5. Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum	07.06.2021
Reihe/Serie	Elements in Magic
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 230 mm
Gewicht	140 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-108-94882-0 / 1108948820
ISBN-13	978-1-108-94882-1 / 9781108948821
Zustand	Neuware