"COMMON AS MUCK" SAYS DAVEY CURTIS

Dear Jon,

I found this on a website about north east towns & villages, but my question is......
How many times have you heard this story. Every village in England must be able to trot this one out.

THE LEGEND OF THE EASINGTON HARE
Easington, a village to the north of Peterlee, was once the home of Nicholas Brakespeare, who later became Adrian IV, the only English pope. The village is also associated with a curious piece of local folklore; `the Legend of the Easington Hare'. This strange little creature had been persistently hunted on numerous occasions, throughout the countryside near Easington but it was extremely elusive, always managing to escape.
Finally one day, a hound managed to bite the leg of the hare just before it escaped into a hole in the wall of a nearby ruined building. The huntsmen were determined to capture the mischievous little beast and entered the building to search for it. To their astonishment they could only find an old woman nervously bandaging her bleeding leg. The building was searched throughout and there seemed to be no way that the hare could have escaped. Only one conclusion could be made, the old lady was the hare, the hare was a witch!

Regards

Davy C

Answers on a post card to Not that old chestnut, that story went out with Harold's eye.