Strigoi in popular culture

In Romanian mythology, strigoi are the evil souls of the dead rising from the tombs (or living) that transform into an animal or phantomatic apparition during the night to haunt the countryside, troubling whoever it encounters. Strigoi have appeared many times in popular culture.
Television
*A group of strigoi appeared in the episode "Bite Father, Bite Son" in the animated series American Dragon: Jake Long.
*1999 The Strigoi are the featured enemy in the Hercules: The Legendary Journeys television episode "Darkness Visible".
* On the television show Supernatural, season 1, first aired in 2006, there was an episode titled "Something Wicked" and the term 'shtriga' was mentioned and seen in the show.
* In the ABC television series, "Scariest Places on Earth," strigoi are discussed in an episode called "Return to Romania Dare." The episode originally aired on April 21, 2002.
Movies
*In the Dracula (2000) movie, Count Dracula calls his wolf pet by the names of "strigoi" and "moroi".
*One of the villains in the 30 Days of Night (2007) film is listed as "Strigoi" in the end credits.
* Mike Mignola's Right Hand of Doom, from the Hellboy movie series feature's a female vampire proclaiming that the vârcolac (singular entity here) is the master of the moroii and strigoi.
Books
*The term is used to describe vampires in general in the book series "The Hunt" by Susan Sizemore.
*The Strigoi play a central role in Graham Masterton's 2006 book, The Descendant.
*The Strigoi play a central role in Dan Simmon's 1992 book, Children of the Night.
*Richelle Mead's Vampire Academy novels features Strigoi as villains.
*A Strigoi appears in "Philologos; or, A Murder in Bistritia" by Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald in the February, 2008 Fantasy and Science Fiction
*In the Guardians of Ga' Hoole book series, an evil owl who's ancestors were witch owls called hagsfiends renames herself the Striga after her escape from the Qui' Dragon Palace.
Games
*The Sixth Edition (6 Ed.) of the Warhammer Fantasy Battle game gives the name Strigoi to a bloodline of monstrous vampires, similar to Count Orlok.
*Underground adventure game, Ben Jordan: Case 3 features a Strigoi who goes by the name of Zortherus
*The videogame Ace Combat 6 features an enemy squadron called "Strigon", which insignia & paintscheme contains death motifs.
* The 2007 Video Game The Witcher based on the novels by Andrzej Sapkowski, features a vampyric female creature known as a striga.
* In the 2008 video game Soul Calibur 4 the French fencer (and vampire) Raphael Sorel has a move called the Strigoi Envelopment.
*In the 2008 adventure video game "A vampyre story" one of the more prominent characters is named Madam Strigoi and all though she is not herself a vampyre (as far as we know) she has great insight into vampires.
* In Disgaea video game series, there's a class of vampires called Strigoi.
Music
*The term is used in a song from the black metal band Dark Funeral the song is called "Ravenna Strigoi Mortii" and is on the album Vobiscum Satanas.

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