Shtriga is an awfully evil witch from Albanian folklore.
As legend says, this evil-doer preys upon the life essence of a person (spiritus vitae) and can feed on anyone, however they prefer the young through blood-parasitism at night.
Only the Shtriga could cure those she had victimized by spitting in their mouths.
There is also mixed lore about the creature being able to shapeshift into other creatures such as owls, which is why the screech owl has a reputation of being very unlucky...
However, instead of transforming into an owl when she goes for her midnight snack, she is more apt to take the form of a flying insect; a moth...
The male form of the vampiric Shtriga is Shtrigu or Shtrigan...
The legends say that if a silver coin were to be soaked in that blood and wrapped in cloth, it would become an amulet offering permanent protection from any shtriga...
The shtriga will refuse to eat anything spiced or containing garlic...
They say that the only way to devour a shtriga is to trap it on Easter with a cross made of pigs bone placed in the threshold of a church....
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