Long, long ago in a quaint little town where bunnies lived freely and hopped all around,
lived two bunny friends, so close and carefree who played through the autumn, their hearts filled with glee
Until, in the forest, they found a brown book of magic and curses too great not to look
The hares slowly changed as they learned many spells of hexes and secrets far too dark to tell
Through day and through night they practiced their art they chanted and cursed as the book changed their hearts
The others all feared for the two bunny friends who formerly laughed and sang through fall’s end
And as they all asked where the two bunnies went, a nosey old rabbit to their home was sent
He knocked and he knocked though he got no reply then went to the window and through it he spied
The two bunny friends and he stifled a cry at horrors and shadows, his eyes became wide
The old bunny ran to tell the whole town Of what they must do when the sun would go down
They gathered with pitchforks, with fire and stakes And marched in a mob under winter snowflakes.
That night the two witches, asleep in their beds, were quite unaware of the danger ahead
Their cottage was stormed as they pleaded and fought, But it was no use, they were easily caught
Then bound to a stake with wood kindling below But as it was lit the two started to glow
Their feet to the fire, they uttered a spell and conjured a creature ascended from hell
The beast spread its dark body and ravaged the town, rained fire and sulfur and burned it all down
Their home now in ruins, in embers aglow
The two rabbits fled across new winter’s snow
In an original folktale written and illustrated by Lydia Parker, the idyllic lives of two rabbits are forever changed upon finding a mysterious book of spells.