In Kidsgrove, Staffordshire, there is a phantom white rabbit said to predict the death of a family member of anyone who sees it. Similarly, the appearance of a white rabbit at Wheal Vor in Cornwall presaged a death in the mine.
The ghost of a white lop-eared rabbit is said to haunt Crank in Lancashire. It belonged to Jennie, the granddaughter of an old woman accused of being a witch by a man called Pullen. He and another man, Piers, entered her house during the night and stabbed the old woman in the arm to break her power. Frightened, Jennie fled the house with her rabbit in her arms. The men chased her. They lost Jennie but found the rabbit and kicked it to death. The next day Jennie was found dead.
Shortly after, the rabbit's ghost showed itself to Piers who eventually jumped into a quarry out of remorse. Then, in a nicely ironic twist, the rabbit hounded Pullen to death through the open fields, where he died of exhaustion and exposure.
The rabbit was also one of the forms it was believed witches could take.