Vanishing trick
Bill Oddie goes on a country cycle ride along the back roads of Norfolk. He stops by a field. Modern farming supposedly doesn't encourage wildlife, but here he's seeing masses of pheasants, partridges, rabbits and hares. Here there are two hare does and one buck and the females aren't interested in him. Hares have longer ears, longer legs and longer faces than rabbits and sniff all the time to find a mate or detect danger. Hares use their long legs to race away from danger and vanish. In the olden days, it was this that got them into trouble. Originally hares were sacred creatures, but when Christianity came in they were regarded as wicked and witches. Once it was believed that hares could only be killed with a silver cross. Buffy the Hare Slayer?
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