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Owls and Halloween?
BigBear
If your life had a face, I would punch it.Registered User regular
If your life had a face, I would punch it.Registered User regular
This isn't a big deal, I figured I'd ask this question just for fun and out of curiosity.
I bought some cheap paper Halloween decorations from Stop and Shop today. They're those paper cutouts that people tape to their windows.
There's a pack of four of them. One of them is a haunted house, another one is a pumpkin smoking a corn cob pipe, there's a witch, and then I notice one of them is an owl.
That got me thinking, what exactly do owls have to do with Halloween?
I know that owls are predators, but they don't seem particularly scary or spooky in my mind. Actually, they seem kind of cute and cuddly sometimes. I guess I just don't see why they're connected to the holiday.
I bought some cheap paper Halloween decorations from Stop and Shop today. They're those paper cutouts that people tape to their windows.
There's a pack of four of them. One of them is a haunted house, another one is a pumpkin smoking a corn cob pipe, there's a witch, and then I notice one of them is an owl.
That got me thinking, what exactly do owls have to do with Halloween?
I know that owls are predators, but they don't seem particularly scary or spooky in my mind. Actually, they seem kind of cute and cuddly sometimes. I guess I just don't see why they're connected to the holiday.
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http://birds.suite101.com/article.cfm/barn_owl_one_of_our_halloween_birds
Basically, they're nocturnal and sometimes scare people with loud noises.
I've actually experienced this. Even worse, we have an animal here whose name I can't recall, but its call sounds like a woman shrieking.
Things we also have: Rabbits, deer, lizards, turtles, tortoises, foxes. It's not so bad.
This is especially true. Many Native American cultures believe this. I think this, coupled with the nighttime activities, plus incessent hooting, is why they are a Halloween animal, joining the ranks of the black cat, and the undead turkey.
Scary as fuck.
My grandmother had a neighbor who kept peacocks as pets, and they sounded like this.
I'm not talking about one short shriek. :P
Whoops, it wasn't a gif, it's a video.
http://www.craveonline.com/videos/video/creepy-owls-38070
To combine the two, we used to own a rabbit, but my mom was cleaning the rabbit's cage one night. She sets the rabbit down. He wont run, he hasn't before, this is a smart rabbit who knows that living with us means carrots and petting, but all the wilds have for him are trees and strife. He's been loose before and gone nowhere.
It was dusk, and there's one thing she didn't count on.
There was no scream, no cry, no wail of death--that would be comfort; only the near-silent sound of a brush of air. Owls are highly evolved predators, and a white and black bunny, unused to survival and without the benefit of tall grass stood no chance. So owls are, in my mind, silent death.
Peacocks have this call that sounds sort of like someone screaming for help. It is creepy as fuck at night.
Yup, personally experienced this. It's remarkably convincing, if you don't know to expect it. Sounds very much like a woman yelling "HELP!"