(12-18-2020, 01:48 PM)Wallfire Wrote: Thats a new one for me, but it reminds me of the Mothman ( or should I say Mothperson, I do like to be PC )
You're not the only person I've heard say that - postulating a connection between the Mothman and the Owl Man.
I live in "Mothman Country". While the original sighting was at Point Pleasant, WV, around the time of the Silver Bridge collapse across the Ohio River, subsequent reports have come in from a fairly wide area around that locus, in Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia, and I believe Pennsylvania. I live about 120 mi/ 195 km almost straight south of the original sighting, and my family comes from an area about 50 mi/ 80 km east of it. That area was settled by several ne'er-do-wells from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and... Cornwall. Some parts of my own ancestry track back to Cornwall and Devon, because part of me comes from the stock that settled there.
I have to wonder if the shared blood has anything to do with it - maybe an old forgotten Cornish legend come to life, or something like that. I know that Black Shuck, the Banshee, "Balls of Fire", and some other British legends found their way into that area with the immigrants from various parts of the Old Sod, and see no reason that Cornwall should not be represented as well.
I've never seen the Mothman, nor have I any desire to. The biggest bird I've ever seen was something that looked like a Golden Eagle, which had a wingspan tip to tip of around 12 1/2 feet / 3.8 m. I measured it against the tops of two pine trees the wingtips brushed in passing, and then measured the distance between the trees later, which was 12 feet 6 inches... but that was when I lived in NC, about 20 miles south of Eden NC. It was not in Mothman Country, nor did that bird really answer the description. Looked more like a Golden Eagle with a heavier beak that those Eagles have, not owl-like at all other than the possession of feathers, and no glowing red eyes, just standard issue eyes, and I saw it in broad daylight, not in the night as the Mothman is wont to prowl.
So, for @"BIAD" - are there any ancient or old Cornish legends you know of that might answer for the Owl Man?
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’