Giant Owl Man

Biography
According to Apache lore, Giant Owl Man is a cannibalistic monster who transfixes his victims with a stare, takes them home, and eats them. In other accounts, he is the evil son of the Sun. He kills all people and is killed in turn by his brother. In many stories, he is one of the monsters that the cultural hero vanquished before the earth could be made habitable for mankind. In others, Giant Owl is used as a "bogeyman" to encourage children to behave and follow the rules. Like other legendary Apache beings, Big Owl is sometimes described as having human form and other times animal form--in this case a horned owl large enough to carry off a child.

The creature faced by Maeve MacKenna and Rafaele Forino was not the work of storytellers, but a very real threat that decimated the caravan in which they traveled. Giant Owl Man was a favored topic of campfire tales spun by Eric Strajean, and shared an unusual past with Kököle Redbird.