@sarahnour.bsky.social"The rabbits mingled naturally. They did not talk for talking's sake, in the artificial manner that human beings [do]... But this did not mean that they were not communicating; merely that they were not communicating by talking."
—Watership Down, Richard Adams
@sarahnour.bsky.social"Animals don't behave like men... If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But they don't sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures' lives and hurting them."
—Watership Down, Richard Adams
@21rosa.bsky.social“I declare you have given us lettuce again. Really, my dear, you must think of something new for breakfast.”
Hare being a gourmand in "The Squirrel, the Hare and the Little Grey Rabbit" by Alison Uttley (1939)
🎨 Margaret Tempest's illustrations for the series
@wunderkammertales.eurosky.social"When a witch wished to take on the form of a hare she said:
'I sall goe intill ane haire,
With sorrow, and sych, and meikle caire;
And I sall goe in the Divellis nam,
Ay quhill I com hom againe.'"
(Margaret Murray "The Witch-Cult in Western Europe")
🎨 Tamsin Abbott
@thesurrealari.bsky.socialOriginal #beatrixpotter Peter Rabbit illustration on view at Philadelphia Free Library rate book room.
@bevanthomas.bsky.social"All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you - digger, listener, runner.... Be full of tricks, and your people shall never be destroyed."
- Richard Adams, "Watership Down"
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@niftybuckles.bsky.social#BookWormSat #InternationalRabbitDay 🐇📚
In Margery Williams’ *The Velveteen Rabbit* (1922), a stuffed rabbit longs to become Real.
The Skin Horse tells him that becoming Real happens when a child truly loves you, a bit of literary magic that has endured for over a century. 🐰❤️✨
@niftybuckles.bsky.social#BookWormSat #InternationalRabbitDay 🐇📚
Beware the ghostly Spook Rabbit! 🕯️🐇👻
In Pennsylvania urban legend, this spectral rabbit frustrates hunters, sends hounds fleeing and vanishes mysteriously into the night. 🌙
#Ghosts #SpookRabbit #UrbanLegend 🐇👻
🎨 Ima Gleason
@niftybuckles.bsky.social#BookWormSat 📖🐇
🐇 “Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!”
The White Rabbit hurries Alice toward Wonderland, following a path from the ordinary into curiosity, mystery & enchantment. ✨
🎨 John Tenniel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
#InternationalRabbitDay 🐇
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🌙 #WitchHares #Shapeshifters
In Irish folklore, witches were said to shapeshift into hares. Tales tell of mysterious hares stealing milk from cows, only to flee home and be discovered again in human form. 🧙♀️
~ National Folklore Collection of Ireland, Dúchas.ie
@21rosa.bsky.social"Light as the moon’s path over the sea
the run of the hare over the land"
Anna Crowe from 'A Calendar of Hares'
🎨 'Running of the Hare' Robert Gillmor
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@asls.org.uk“I should here explain, that the witches, when they take the shape of hares, charm away the power of pouther and lead; so that unless the gun be loaded with silver, it will not go off, or, if it does go off, it will not kill…”
—John Galt, THE STEAM-BOAT (1821)
#BookWormSat #C19
!["Your Majesty has belike heard that there are certain mystical women in the world called witches. In the shire of Renfrew, we have had, both in time past and at present, no small trouble with their pranks, and it is as thoroughly believed among the country folk as the gospel, that the witches are in the practice of gallanting over field and flood after sun-set, in the shape of cats and mawkins, to dance the La Volta, with a certain potentate that I shall not offend your Majesty by naming.
"I should here explain, that the witches, when they take the shape of hares, charm away the power of pouther and lead; so that unless the gun be loaded with silver, it will not go off, or, if it does go off, it will not kill, especially in the hands of a young sportsman; and that the best antidote to their charm, is for the sportsman, when he is an experienced hand, to put a pair of silver sleeve-buttons in his fowling-piece. When he does this, and fires with effect, it is said, and the fact is often well attested, the hare will never be seen again; […]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:vmd2oqboco524fhpqdu7pnbn/bafkreiekwofadf7k7gvzedut2lcvpgcejskv5674lod3sm4y37a2qxtwji@jpeg)
![[…] but beyond the next hedge, some dubious carlin will, in all human probability, be found riddled in the hips, saying her prayers backwards. What I have to tell is an undoubted proof of this, for it happened to myself in the presence of the late Logan of that ilk, a man of singular piety, and one of the best shots in the shire of Ayr.
"Being staying with him, we one day went out to shoot. It was in the afternoon. We started nothing, and we staid late, not very content, as your Majesty may well think, with such profitless sport. But I trow we have both had cause to remember long that afternoon; for in the gloaming, as we were coursing with our dejected dogs, the which were as disappointed as ourselves, we start-ed, as we thought, a hare out of a whin bush. It ran before us, in every gesture, lith, and limb, just like a hare, and the dogs pursued it as if it had been nothing less natural. We followed, never doubting that it was a hare.
"A fine har'st evening had set in, and the new moon, the sickle of Time, betokened, in the west. ern heavens, that Nature was binding up the sheaves of our days; but, nevertheless, we followed our game, never suspecting that it was any […]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:vmd2oqboco524fhpqdu7pnbn/bafkreifre7k3576rdexkqt5jntdrxukleyw7uebuefuc6h5tzjsg52ryqi@jpeg)
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