Curiosa: Les hiboux ...

On opening Pierre Belon's Histoire de la Nature des Oyseaux (Paris, 1555) to catalog it, I found that someone had bookmarked the entry with the illustration of the hibou cornu (horned owl) flying at the reader, claws outstretched, beak open, eyes round and piercing. Er, kanja177, what was it that your Carmelite spiritual writer was recommending to invoke against these things again?

ETA: I'm not sure what to make of some of these other illustrations. There's the rabbit whose expression is more ho-hum than argh! my vitals! despite the hawk on its back, claws poised to sink into its fur -- not to mention the warty-nosed, warty-tongued man with the fly pulling a string from his mouth (or maybe he's got it on a leash tied to his upper central incisors?), on whose outstretched arm sits a gyrfalcon. What any of this is intended to communicate is opaque to me. The past really is a foreign country ...