Hares are well in with Pagans right now; we popped into Glastonbury en route to Devon the other week, all the reeking new age pagan hippy shops bending down with them making me ponder the market - or not; would I ever be so cynical? But given some of the music they play in those places I might wonder!

We saw lots of hares in Devon too, especially in the medieval churches around Dartmoor with the image of the Tinners Rabbits - or Triple Hare / Three Hares as the New Orthodoxy in such matters would have it. Best of all though was St. Andrews in Sampford Courtenay - the most perfect of churches in the most perfect of villages, with the most perfect of roof bosses too - Three Hares, Green Men & all; eve the Green Christ with which I've long been fixated; good to meet him ace to face at last.

All this will be woven into my new rendering of The Names of the Hare / Wee Brown Cow sequence, currently in the throes of nascence* - there'll be my footage of the Devon hares on YouTube too. In my storytelling performances I use bits of this in my telling of Hare's Guts, along with The Innocent Hare, and I get people chanting along with the hopper of ditches, cropper of corn, a wee brown cow with a pair of leather horns to quite darkly ceremonial effect; kids love it as much as they do the more picturesque details of the story. There is an on-line transcription of me telling this Here...

* A prize if anyone can source this reference; if Pip reads this he'll win it hands down.