_The Baker's Daughter._--_Ophelia_ (Act IV. Sc. 5.) says that
"The owl was a baker's daughter."
This reminds me of a Welsh tradition concerning the female who refused a
bit of dough from the oven to the Saviour "when He hungered," and was
changed into _Cassek gwenwyn_, [Hebrew: Lilith] _lilish_[TR: Lilith],
_lamia_, _strix_, the night spectre, _mara_, or screech-owl.