April 2009

Is It Sinful to Eat an Owl after Communion?
Martín de León, Camino del cielo en lengua mexicana, Mexico, 1611.
by Rebecca Earle

References

Abstain from Eating Eastern screech owl from Mark Catesby, The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands..., vol. 1, London, 1771. Image from the collections of the John Carter Brown Library. Not to be reproduced without permission.

1. Francisco Hernández, ‘Maize, The Mexican Treasury: The Writings of Dr. Francisco Hernández, ed. and trans. Simon Varey, Rafael Chabrán and Cynthia Chamberlain, Stanford University Press (Stanford, 2000), 111.

2. Martin León, Camino del cielo, 132.