The Shtriga

This episode we dove into the Shtriga, the Albanian vampiric witch who doesn’t lurk in a castle or avoid the sun, but instead lives right next door, blends in at the market, and waits until you’re asleep to slip into your home as a moth, a fly, or a bee and quietly drain your life force while you’re too exhausted to notice something’s wrong.

We broke down the full lore, from how she’s made to how she feeds to the absolutely unhinged cure that involves her spitting back what she took, covered her creepier cousin the Strzyga, and got into why the legend makes so much sense when you think about tight-knit villages trying to explain why sicknesses quietly moved from household to household and who to blame.