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Striga, commonly known as witchweed, [1] is a genus of parasitic plants that occur naturally in parts of Africa, Asia, and Australia. It is currently classified in the family Orobanchaceae , [ 2 ] although older classifications place it in the Scrophulariaceae . [ 3 ]
Strzyga, an artistic vision by Filip Gutowski.Excerpt from The Sarmatian Bestiarium by Janek Sielicki. Strzyga (Polish pronunciation: [ˈstʂɨɡa], plural: strzygi, masculine: strzygoń) is usually a female demon in Slavic mythology, which stems from the mythological Strix of ancient Rome and ancient Greece. [1]
A shtriga (Albanian: shtrigë) is a vampiric witch in Albanian mythology and folklore that sucks the blood of infants at night while they sleep, and then transform themselves into a flying insect (traditionally a moth, fly or bee).
The Latin term striga in both name and sense as defined by Medieval lexicographers was in use throughout central and eastern Europe. Strega (obviously derived from Latin striga) is the Italian term for witch. This word itself gave a term sometimes also used in English, stregheria, a form of witchcraft.
Striga asiatica, the Asiatic witchweed or the red witchweed, [1] is a hemiparasitic plant in the family Orobanchaceae. It is native to Asia and sub-Saharan Africa , [ 2 ] but has been introduced into other parts of the world including Australia and the United States .
Strigòi is a Romanian word that originated from a root related to the Latin terms strix or striga with the addition of the augmentative suffix "-oi" (feminine "-oaică"). [3] [4] Otila Hedeşan notes that the same augmentative suffix appears in the related terms moroi and bosorcoi (borrowed from Hungarian boszorka) and considers this parallel derivation to indicate membership in the same ...
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Species of Striga alone are estimated to cost billions of dollars a year in crop yield loss annually, infesting over 50 million hectares of cultivated land within sub-Saharan Africa alone. Striga can infest both grasses and grains, including corn, rice and sorghum, some of the most important food crops.