Proserpina en Ascalaphus als uil, Enea Vico (Possibly), After Parmigianino, 1548 print Proserpina standing in a landscape, her hand extended to Ascalaphus in the form of an owl. Ascalaphus discovered Proserpina when she was secretly picking pomegranates, on which she turned him into an owl for punishment. paper engraving Ascalaphus changed into a screech-owl: as punishment for discovering she had eaten some pomegranates, Proserpina sprinkles water from the Phlegethon on Ascalaphus' head, thus changing him into a screech-owl (Ovid, Metamorphoses V 543)

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