User blog comment:Twilight Despair 5/Thule, Magic, and Possible Origin to Pagans./@comment-5115351-20130212022749/@comment-1509826-20130212183003

Just cause its called one by the lore, doesn't mean it is, according to the lore (this is the lore mentioned in the show not the real world lore) a shojo is a spirit, but its shown to be a monster. Likewise in the most recent episode, it was stated that Golems were ment to talk, but that one sure did, in the first zombie episode it was said that silver bullets would kill it, but they didn't. Its commonly excepted in supernatural that the lore is only right some of the time, thats why they go into so much depth in research. Likewise John said in Dead Man's Blood "Most vampire lore is crap, stakes won't kill them, cross won't repel them" etc.

There is also the fact the Shtriga shares absolutly nothing in comman, in any way what so ever with any form of witch (or any type of magic user) for that matter in the show. It has a demonic apperance, it possess superhuman attributes, it feeds off humans, it can't practice magaic etc. No witch has anything like this, in supernatural a witch is simply an ordinary person who practices magic, normally given there power by demons, but exceptions do exist. The fact that it has more in common with monsters (in fact everything) and was treated and described like a monster, proves its one.