The three hares

Why, you may well be asking, have I chosen ‘The Three Hares’ as the title for this blog? I confess, it’s a bit of a self-indulgence. It has to be called something, so it may as …

Corey Egbert on Instagram: “The three hares - an ancient mysterious symbol appearing in many cultures... and as a sticker in my booth at Culpeper tomorrow :) . .…”

'rabbit/hare trinity' -- here labelled "Unser seindt vier" [We are four/there's four of us]. from the album amicorum of Frederick IV of the Palatine [UB Heidelberg, Pal. Ger. 619 -- this is f.47v. entries are dated 1582-1605]. Here we have an interesting association with the motif of the 2 fools who say "we are three" -- making the viewer by his/her puzzled inquiry the 3rd! The hare also has traditional associations of folly -- cf. Eng. "mad as a march hare"

The Three Hares is not found in the medieval bestiary but much like The Pelican in her Piety it is a common motif in medieval church carvings. Its meaning is something of a mystery and depictions of it in medieval art have been found as far west as Devon, England and as far East Dunhuang, China. This image was the only one cut from a lino plate while the others have been made to look like linocuts. The plate itself was about 11 inches in diameter which is pretty colossal for a linocut and…

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some facts about the 3 hares symbol

The Medieval Bestiary 3/3 - Tinners Hares

{:en}Three hares (or rabbits) each have two ears, but together they only have three ears. This puzzling image appears in the Mogao Caves near Dunhuang in northwest China.{:zh}每只兔子各有一双耳朵，但三只兔子加起来却只有三只耳朵，而非六只。当然，这个谜团的解答就暗藏在兔子的排列方式里：三只兔子排成一个三角形，两两相邻的兔子分别共用一只耳朵。{:}