This is Chase115.
Types
Motifs
J1811.1 owl's hoot, misunderstood by lost simpleton
Notes
"Baughman includes one Cornish and 6 U.S. references to this motif. This is certainly of European origin."
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I'm not so sure this would be an actual European origin story; it seems more like a natural history joke, especially with the long lead-in about bird cries in general (I still wish I could find an origin for the whippoorwill poem that Chase simply skipped).
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