werehare

plural werehares · alternative were-hare

1. fictionA shapeshifter who can assume the form of a hare.

   “‘Oh my,’ cried the first camper. ‘Now I understand you completely. You've turned into a werehare!’

   1993, M. C. Varley, Adventures in Wonderland: A Wonderland Howl-Oween, illustrated edition, Disney Press, →ISBN, page 26

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   Like all the children in the neighborhood, A____ and Z____ had grown up hearing strange stories about the Were-Hare, the monster rabbit who allegedly haunted the woods behind their street. According to legend, the Were-Hare had teeth of gold, so long they reached below his chin. Anybody bitten by the Were-Hare went mad—and believed for the rest of his life he was a rodent in human form. On the other hand, anybody who managed to extract one of the Were-Hare's teeth would have good luck for as long as he could keep the tooth.

   2013 April 2, Pseudonymous Bosch, Write This Book: A Do-It-Yourself Mystery, illustrated edition, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, →ISBN

   "Maybe it wasn't the Seeing Hare at all, maybe it was a person in hare form. A were-hare. Look, I don't know!"

   2015 June 9, Lev Grossman, The Magicians Trilogy Books 1-3: The Magicians; The Magician King; The Magicians Land, Penguin, →ISBN

   If he hadn't know better, he'd have thought she was a werehare, something that lived to nibble grass and hide. Not the infuriated creature who had nearly killed a werewolf in his prime.

   2020 March 31, MaryJanice Davidson, “Chapter 3”, in Bears Behaving Badly, volume 1, Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN