Greeting Card: Kelly Hood - Mystic Hare (Square)

Each card is 150mm x 150mm and printed on premium uncoated card, 300gsm made from 100% ECF pulps making it environmentally friendly, it has a rough organic feel, both to the touch and the eye. Individually packed in a cello bag with ribbed kraft brown envelope. Posted in a board back envelope. Blank inside.

These cards are high quality prints that are suitable for framing after the recipient receives them. Proudly made in Wicklow, Ireland.

'Celtic peoples looked on the hare as a creature with supernatural powers. This lonely creature was admired for strength, speed and was noted for being active at night and associated with the moon. They were seen as mysterious and magical, so thought of as an animal to be treated with caution. When the Romans invaded the British Isles, Julius Caesar made the observation that the Celtic people did not regard it lawful to eat the hare. In Ireland the animals had association with women from the Otherworld who could shapeshift into the form of a hare also made eating them taboo. Its significance in Ireland was shown when for many years the Irish hare was depicted on the pre-decimal coin the threepenny piece’.

Alastair Kneale