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In the celtic mythology the hare is a divine animal, a totem of the Mother Goddess, symbol of fertility and wild femine. It is linked to magic, because the hare is a crepuscolare animal, it comes out only at dawn or sunset, so between light and darkness : for this reason the celtics believed that the hare had the power to travel between differents words, and so the animal got linked to the witches. The "Hare Spell" is a druid process in which women could tranform themeselves into hares, the myth tells that witches used to turn themeselves into hare in order to escape from the men hunters. (The words of the spell are in the song "Hare Spell" by Fay Hield up here).

The most famous testimony goes back to the process of the witch Isobel Gowdie in 1622, who told she become a hare to perform acts of witchcraft in the Devil's name. 

During the centuries it appears the triskelion of the hare, a Celtic symbol consisting of three hares connected by the ears: this symbol is still a mystery, but it is thought that represents the moon phases, the circle of life, fertility, and again, feminity.

The symbology of the hare changed during the history and different cultures, but remain a symbol of the archetype of the wild and free femininity, which men never know how to control it. 

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