human
The owl was a baker's daughter (Ham. iv. 5). Douce says this is a common tradition in Gloucestershire.
gpt
Our Saviour went into a baker's shop, where they were baking, and asked for some bread to eat. The mistress of the shop immediately put a piece of dough in the oven to bake for him; but was reprimanded by her daughter, who, insisting that the piece of dough was too large, reduced it to a very small size. The dough, however, immediately began to swell, and presently became of a most enormous size; whereupon the baker's daughter cried out, _Heugh, heugh, heugh!_ which owl-like noise probably induced our Saviour to transform her into that bird for her wickedness.