there is a simular story vaigly translated from the gaelic and gealic and manx of a type of wise women who was cursed by the local people and transformed at night to a rabbit /hare and cursed the locals to having there souls taken if they hunted her , this was a story I was told when I was 7 in barra, scotland, but know it is also told in breton, france and genral in celtic legends in the old kingdoms.