Do hares have any mystical or mythological significance?
I’m not sure about ghostly hares, but I do know rabbits and hares both have a vast mythological and spiritually symbolic history. They are widely considered good and bad; seen as both benevolent creatures as well as tricksters. In many mythic traditions, rabbits and hares were symbols of femininity, associated with the lunar cycle, fertility, longevity, and rebirth. Hares are also widely considered as a symbol of intuition. In China, the Hare in the Moon is depicted with a mortar and pestle in which he mixes the elixir of immortality; he is the messenger of a female moon deity and the guardian of all wild animals. Figures of hares or white rabbits are commonly found at Chinese Moon Festivals, where they represent longevity, fertility, and the feminine power of yin. In one Buddhist legend from India Lord Buddha was a hare in an early incarnation. In Egyptian myth, hares were also closely associated with the cycles of the moon, which was viewed as masculine when waxing and feminine when
