Etymology
The name strigoi is related to the Romanian verb a striga, which in Romanian means scream. The writer Romulus Vulcanescu have found a Latin origin of the name strigoi. He argues that the name is related to strigoi Latin term strigosus meaning "skinny", a term found in Strigeidida. Another theory relates Strigoi to the Italian word Strega which means "witch" and the Greek word Strigx, and which likely derives from the Albanian Shtriga (the ancient Illyrians, Thracians and Dacians shared similar mythological characters and tales). In French, stryge means a bird-woman who sucks the blood of children. Jules Verne has used in his novel The Castle of the Carpathians published in 1892, in Chapter II, the term strigoi, more local : "(...) vampires, known as stryges, because they shout for strygies, (...) ".
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