schirim

Updated: May 2, 2025

The lamia, a vampire, half woman and half serpent like the wyvern, is a night bird, the white or the screech owl; the satyrs and fauns, the hairy beasts spoken of in the Vulgate, are, after all, no more than wild goats 'schirim, as they are called in the Mosaic original.

J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans - The Cathedral