Brown Hare (Lepus europaeus), Cobley
Introduction
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Brown Hare (Lepus europaeus), Cobley
Image: © Maigheach-gheal Taken: 13 Mar 2010
Hares were said to resemble a coven of witches dancing. Like many animals sacred to older religions, medieval Christians changed the hare into an animal of ill omen, saying witches shape-shifted into hare form to suck cows dry. Stories abound of wounds inflicted on hares being found the next day on a woman. It was claimed that a witch in hare form could only be killed by a silver crucifix. But old beliefs die hard and much lore regarding the lucky, as well as the unlucky, nature of the hare exists to this day.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.980753
Longitude
-1.967613