But the spinning hares are more likely to be found in the churches of medieval France and western England where they were called ‘tinners rabbits’ by the Cornish miners. The hares have even been found on Buddhist temple walls along the Silk Road, and their motion resembles nothing so much as the limbs of Shiva circling in his wheel of fire. So the hares bounded into Satanow from somewhere else, perhaps somewhere a long way away. The town was, after all, a crossroads of trade and ideas, sitting as it did between the forested country of the Dniester, the rise of the Carpathian Mountains, the
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