Of course, owls on the loose seemed strange to the uninitiated. One day an electrician came to work on the building's power supply, when, seemingly out of nowhere, an owl flew around a corner right at him. The poor guy let out an unearthly scream and hit the floor, covering his head and yelling in Spanish. Stacey OBrien
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A common superstition of the Victorian era was the belief that owls were evil. That belief stemmed from the behavior of some owls in which they would swoop down on people at night, snatch them up in their talons, and carry them off to the woods. The English were so terrified of these acts that an electrician once refused to do work on a building because he thought that owls lived on the site. Even though he had never seen one, he refused to look for one because of his fear of what might happen if he did.

Source: Wesley The Owl: The Remarkable Love Story Of An Owl And His Girl

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