Crossword-Solution: STRIGA 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

The honour of women, whether in fact or merely in fame, is protected by many severe laws, among which I shall only notice, that the calling a free woman 'striga' (witch) is severely punishable.

Far more in keeping with the vastness of her powers, and the vagueness of her outline, are the titles of Baba Yaga, Lamia, Striga, Troll-Wife, Ogress, or Dragoness, under which she figures in various lands.

Latin poetry of the Augustan and succeeding period abounds with illustrations, and the witches of Horace, Ovid, and Lucan are the famous classical types.[25] Propertius has characterised the Striga as 'daring enough to impose laws upon the moon bewitched by her spells;' while Petronius makes his witch, as potent as Strepsiades' Thessalian sorceress, exclaim that the very form of the moon herself is compelled to descend from her position in the universe at her command.

But if they could acknowledge the characteristics of the Italian Striga, those nations at the same time retained a proper respect for the venerated Saga--the German Hexe.

STRIGA, str[=i]'ga, _n._ (_bot_.) a sharp bristle or hair-like scale: a stripe, stria: the flute of a column:--_pl._ STR[=I]'GÆ.--_adjs._ STR[=I]'GATE, STR[=I]'GOSE, having strigæ: streaked; STRIG'ILOSE, minutely strigose.