The best hare in the country.

[patterdale666 1,620]

Great read

[socks 32,253]

Oh my god .... So every hare I have killed has been an old lady ... I feel sick .........

[Guest edrd]

Good story 

Edited November 4, 2017 by edrd

[Guest Moscow]

Another version of the story.

 

 

ACCORDING to William Brockie, he had been told the story about three years earlier, his informant one Mary Shaw. She had died at the age of 85, but before her death she had passed on the tale which she, in turn, had heard from those with first hand experience.

Brockie, who included the account in his 1886 volume, Legends and Superstition of the County of Durham, related how Mary Shaw told him she had gone to live in Easington at the age of 40. There, she had been told by the elderly people of the village about a mysterious hare.

It seemed that whenever the gentry went hunting around Easington or Castle Eden, a hare sprang in front of the pack. The hare would lead the hounds away from the scent they had been following and towards the village.

But what was different about this hare, as well as its ability to avoid capture, was that instead of darting about the fields, changing direction to try and avoid its pursuers, it steered a course directly towards the village, and once there would get clean away.

The huntsmen were vexed. And amid their frustration they began to believe there was something strange about the creature. They were further puzzled when they discovered that, on days when the hunt was out, a certain cottage in the village, in the square on the right hand side going down from the church to the sea, would always be shut, as if its occupant were away.

The inhabitant of the cottage was not popular in the village. She was a tall, bony woman with masculine features, described by her neighbours as "an ill-natured, wrinkled old hag". She scraped a living in the fields, but such was her outlook that no-one else would go near her and she always worked alone.

According to Brockie's account: "In seed time, turnip time, weeding time, hay time, harvest time, and all through the year, she was generally left to work in a place by herself: yet scarcely a day elapsed in which she did not give somebody offence with her vile randy tongue, while anyone who was rash enough to offend her... were certain before long to repent what they had done."

Her sour temper had caused her to become detested, and whenever crops failed or livestock ailed, it was blamed on her. So it was natural that when talk suggested the hare was really a witch, suspicion fell on the old woman in the cottage.

To test the theory, the master of the hounds got hold of a black bloodhound that had been suckled at a woman's breast. Next day, this hound led the hunt.

True to form, the hounds had no sooner picked up a scent than the hare leapt in front of them and began to race straight for the village, leading them away from their trail. But this time the hare was not to make its escape so easily. The black bloodhound kept up the pursuit, keeping just a few bounds behind the hare. Not close enough to attempt to grasp it within its jaws, but close enough that one slip would seal the hare's fate.

At length, the hare entered the village, just ahead of the hound. Once there, it made straight for the old woman's cottage. A hole had been cut in the bottom of the door for the hens to go in and out, and the hare made directly for the hole.

But the hound was too quick. As the hare slowed to squeeze through the hole, the hound's jaws closed around its haunches. In a final desperate bound, the hare was free, but leaving behind a lump of its flesh in the black bloodhound's mouth.

Moments later, the huntsmen arrived and finding the hound with its bloody prize, they burst open the door of the cottage. Inside, there was no hare to be seen, but sitting on a chair in the middle of the room was the old woman, bathed in sweat and her blood streaming onto the floor.

She had been caught, and the wretched woman begged for pardon. Seeing that her power had been broken by her injury, the huntsmen allowed her to live, and left her to stem the flow of blood as best she could. And although she was allowed to continue living in the village, she was shunned even more than she was before.

But this was not the end of the story. When she died, the old woman was laid to rest in consecrated ground, even though she had never gone to church. But Brockie's informant Mary Shaw was not the only person in the village to witness the strange sight of a white sheep rolling over and over on top of the churchyard wall, a sign that the power of the witch of Easington was still at work.

[reddawn 2,173]

good read them mate

[fireman 10,902]

A fairy tale for Xmas, from Uncle Joe !!

 

There is a lot of folklore regarding hares; the "easter bunny" is actualy a hare, based, I think, on Saxon or Celtic myth. The "lucky rabbits foot" is also origionaly a hares foot. And more up to date, Bugs Bunny is actualy a hare !! LOL !!

 

Good read, Joe !

 

Cheers.

The easter egg bit came from old pagan beliefs that the hare laid a egg(a lapwings egg really)and from this spring hatched,then the christians got hold of things and b*****d'isd the story to fit in with their bullshit.

[bobby blackheart 1,209]

enjoyed that

[Guest bigdaddylongchopper]

gay as fcuk give your head a wobble and man up ffs

[reddawn 2,173]

gay as fcuk give your head a wobble and man up ffs

 

i was being polite, but seeing as you said it how it is, it is as gay as fook, fookin scabby hares he talkin aboot

[chartpolski 23,523]

gay as fcuk give your head a wobble and man up ffs

 

He's just testing the waters for a book he's writing; "The Gay Lampers Handbook" !!!

 

Cheers.

[Mixed Bag 603]

dont heed them moscow nowt wrong with being in touch with your feminine side

[Dan Edwards 1,134]

I just wasted 5 minutes of my life. I feel as if I have full blown AIDS now.

[Guest bigdaddylongchopper]

I just wasted 5 minutes of my life. I feel as if I have full blown AIDS now.

 

someone should hit the report button on this thread,and mods should ban or give moscow a warning for trying to gay up thl..............

[Guest Moscow]

Its just not right ruining a mans topic

 

gay as fcuk give your head a wobble and man up ffs

 

Darling your jealous

Edited December 20, 2012 by Moscow

[shaunpowell 130]

Never heard that before mate, enjoyed it, atb shaun