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St Nicolas' Catherdral, Newcastle upon Tyne
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Around the back of St Nic's Cathedral in Newcastle's old town you'll find an incongruously cheerful building with a brightly painted facade. Above the entrance squats a bloody fanged, manic eyed rabbit. Despite it's fearsome visage, the Vampire Rabbit is viewed locally as more of guardian than a menace. Overlooking the cathedral graveyard, the weird little grotesque is said to protect the tombs from graverobbers. Some even claim he was erected as a response to the infamous Burke and Hare whose notorious killing spree occurred in nearby Edinburgh. Others claim that the stonemason who carved the rabbit placed his ears back to front, this shift in the statue's energy caused it to slowly morph into the horror we know today.
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Stefan