The Hare (Lepus timidus) has always attracted a certain mystic aura because, perhaps, of its strange leaping activity in the springtime; but I recently came on two accounts of strange leporine behavior. Both are taken from the book Irish Fairy Forts (2025).
The first involved a veterinarian. He stopped his car on a hill and was looking down at a fairy mound below. Then he saw the hares, a throng of them. They were all sitting there, absolutely immobile, staring at the rising sun. The whole spectacle had a sort of mystic, perhaps somewhat scary, effect on the on looker.
The authors of the book had a similar experience. They were standing looking at a rath, an early enclosure. This one had a mound within it associated with the fairies and they intended to photograph it. Then the hares arrived running from different directions. They stayed there until the sun came up. Then they went on their separate ways.
The whole episode seemed to be an otherworldly mystic experience.
Hares in the USA are usually miscalled rabbits. Funnily enough, the American Eastern Hare is in fact a rabbit!
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