Child Owlet
Child Owlet is Child ballad 291 and a murder ballad. It was performed by Steeleye Span in their album They Called her babylon
Synopsis
Lady Erskine tries to seduce her husband's nephew, Child Owlet. He refuses. She stabs herself and tells her husband that he had tried to seduce her. He puts Child Owlet to death by having him torn apart by wild horses.
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