Gowdie's twenty seven chants are more than in any other British witchcraft case. The hare is the best known of them and has been set to music more than once. The idea that a witch bitten as a hare shows the wound in human form was a common one in witch belief, so her account fits an existing tradition.
The record documents what a woman said under interrogation in 1662. It does not show that anything of the kind took place.
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