Mehmood Ali is a carpenter by day and shaman by night. He says he heals people battling anxiety, sleeplessness, curses and misfortune. The soft-spoken, 50-year-old Ali uses body parts of owls in his ...

The night has always been a symbol of the unknown. Humans naturally fear darkness because it hides what we cannot see, and this is why nocturnal creatures have long been seen as mystical. Owls, being ...

Owls are not usually loveable. In fact they're mostly rat eating, wide-eyed horrorshows. And yet the story of Oscar, the "mystical" and "very clumsy" owl, is one that we can all recognise, one way or ...

With a face as round as the first letter of its name and a stance as upright as the last—along with human-like features and a haunting cry—the owl has a mystical, mythical perch in the imagination.