An Egyptian Owl

It was a hot, static, full moonlit night. I was sitting out in the garden with some relatives. I caught sight of a flutter of wings and something big landing on an exposed branch further down the garden. I instantly recognized the peculiar shape in the dim light. It was an owl. It was the first time I and all my relatives who have been living in Egypt all their lives witnessed the freakishness, yet awesome presence of such a clandestine bird of prey.

Here it is,



I got pretty darn close to it. I was standing right under it and it looked down at me with those huge freaky black eyes. It was like an alien perched up on the branch thinking, "what is that idiot human staring at?".



Call us superstitious morons, but we could not help not feeling the bad omen. Owls are known in some parts of the world to be bad omens. Some parts of the world believe the eared owls represent wisdom and the ear-less owls are harbingers of death. Rabena yostor isA.

The Ancient Egyptians drew their hieroglyphics owl symbol with a broken leg as to prevent it from coming to life and bringing evil.

Quite an interesting incident...