1x18 Something Wicked - John Meta

[phantomas]

Something Wicked it's the episode that definitely divides John Winchester's supporters from the fans thinking that he should be publically whipped and trashed for being an abusive, over-all sucky excuse for a father *G*

John in Something Wicked: the making of a warrior or the breaking of a son?

Dean: "Dad sent us here for a reason"

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Re: usage note...

[phantomas]

The shtriga isn't a monster, it's exactly what it appears as in the episode, a soul(blood originally) sucking evil in woman form (at least as far as I've read/browsed around), that is, a witch/strega. The associated Christian involvement of 'streghe' with Demons and Satan came much later - traditionally, the benandanti phenomenon was set in Friuli, Italy, end of 1500-middle of 1600 (at least, as far as I've read around - I checked these as references:

http://www.shanmonster.com/witch/traits/striga.html
http://www.supernaturalfans.com/shtrigas.php
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=834700
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shtriga
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witches

and if you can read Italian, this:

http://www.liberonweb.com/asp/libro.asp?ISBN=8806161881

http://www.ilfriuli.it/index.php?sez=view_art&CodArticolo=8305)

The benandanti are really fascinating, you're right, they'd make a good episode, but they're note US urban legends (although, vampires aren't either, now that I think about it, which means a certain leeway is acceptable) :D