[url=https://www.worldoftales.com/fairy_tales/Brothers_Grimm/Margaret_Hunt/The_Owl.html#gsc.tab=0]The Owl[/url] by The Brothers Grimm. It would have been an old, fairy tale-like story, lost to time perhaps?

Form what I take of it, it is a great depiction of humanity being scared of the unknown. Perhaps I think more on the 'unknown' than the 'fear'?