The 山海经 ‘Classic of Mountains and Rivers’ is full of these kind of animals. It’s like ‘It resembles a monkey but it has four fingers on one hand and its dung is toxic’ or ‘It looks like a centipede with patterns that resemble a human face’
It seems that Japanese still uses 枭 as their kanji for owl, with the reading fukuro. The stigma persists for our unfairly maligned owl folk
The 山海经 ‘Classic of Mountains and Rivers’ is full of these kind of animals. It’s like ‘It resembles a monkey but it has four fingers on one hand and its dung is toxic’ or ‘It looks like a centipede with patterns that resemble a human face’
It seems that Japanese still uses 枭 as their kanji for owl, with the reading fukuro. The stigma persists for our unfairly maligned owl folk