#and the owl form described in the traditional mesopotamian lore i'm shamelessly cribbing from here

[who-canceled-roger-rabbit]

It's perhaps fitting that in my story that started as a depotterized American AU fic, the Gary Oldman analogue does the "changing into a beast form that people mistake for a traditional death omen" thing, except here instead of a black dog it's Mothman

(Tagging @loki-zen here as they have a bit of a background in British folklore, albeit focused more on Arthurian legend from what I recall)