Expectant mums were advised to avoid eating hares' heads in case they caused a harelip, skip soft cheese lest their sons be born with small penises, and shun fish heads for fear of giving their child a trout pout – as well as the perhaps more reasonable advice to avoid shagging a man with filthy feet.
At night, the lights are low and the spotlight is on the hatch, where chefs churn out potted rabbit, ravioli of hare, pigs head croquette and pheasant en crépinette under a display of sparkling copper pans.
Some were carved by great craftsmen, some by gifted amateurs; all held forever a moment of time – the twist of a tiger's shoulders, the twitch of a hare's head.
By the 1930s, the route was rerouted at Hares Corner to head east into New Castle and cross the river on a ferry to Pennsville, New Jersey.
One Chinese text says a dragon has a deer's antlers, a camel's head, a hare's eyes, a serpent's neck, a crocodile's belly, an eagle's claws, a tiger's paws and a buffalo's ears.
"I wasn't in a go-out-on-the-town mood," Ms. Hare said, and she headed back to her hotel although her initial impression of Ms. Cassarino was: "Oh, she's intriguing.
Their press shots revealed a fondness for hiding any ordinariness behind animal heads – hares, goats, fluffy dogs – and the Herefordshire band's music is equally otherworldly.
There is no mercy in the glitter of cleavers, The butcher's guillotine that whispers: "How's this, how's this?" In the bowl the hare is aborted, Its baby head out of the way, embalmed in spice, Flayed of fur and humanity.
Matters came to a head following the Burke and Hare murders of 1828.
The thing is, I don't think I could reach the depths of my mind with a gold-ribbed hare's ear nymph on a floating line, even a bead-head nymph.
Hare was aware of the point.
