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Clay owl (土梟) (fanqie: 皎堯反. An evil-sounding bird. It gathers clods of earth and attaches them to itself, treating them as its chicks. A method in the Huainanzi says: “A steamer tile can stop the calling of an owl.” It is a bird of ominous voice; popular tradition also regards the owl as an unfilial bird. Note that the Shenyi jing says: “The unfilial bird has a human-like body and dog-like fur, possessing teeth and boar-like tusks. On its forehead is a pattern saying ‘unfilial’; beneath its mouth is a pattern saying ‘unkind’; on its nose is a pattern saying ‘immoral’; on its left cheek is a pattern saying ‘loving husband’; on its right cheek is a pattern saying ‘pitying wife’. Thus Heaven established this strange bird to make manifest loyalty and filial piety.” Fearing that people might conflate the two, I have fully cited this here; to call the owl an ‘unfilial bird’ is an error).