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Brown Hare (Lepus europaeus), Cobley

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English: Brown Hare (Lepus europaeus), Cobley 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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Author Trish Steel
Camera location50° 58′ 49″ N, 1° 58′ 05″ W  Heading=22° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo
Object location50° 58′ 51″ N, 1° 58′ 03″ W  Heading=22° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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