Bunny rabbits are a sign of spring renewal, and are everywhere around Easter, in our yards and our Easter baskets. They are also seen as the most harmless of all wildlife, which is why we find it amusing to make them into monsters, from the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog to Bunnicula. That joke is not altogether new, either, as seen in the murderous bunnies of medieval marginalia.
A town in England has its own killer rabbit, perched atop the back door of the Cathedral Buildings, which is one building and not a cathedral. The black bunny with its bulging eyes and red mouth and claws is no medieval gargoyle- the building was erected in 1901. But there was no explanation for it then, and indeed the rabbit went mostly unnoticed for a hundred years. In the last couple of decades, legends have grown up around it and people go out of their way to see the "vampire rabbit." So what's the real story? Lenora at The Haunted Palace Blog takes us through the history of fictional killer bunnies and digs to the bottom of Newcastle upon Tyne's bad bunny. -via Strange Company
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