Hey all, I have a question specifically for people from England, but anyone else who might be able to help, feel free.

When I was a kid, a family friend who used to babysit me (she was from England) told me about something she called *The Wax Rabbit*. It’s a story that stuck with me because it honestly scared me at the time.

The way she described it was very specific: an adult woman with the head of a white rabbit, with two red eyes, wearing a dark blue, old-fashioned dress. She said wax would slowly drip from her body like she was melting, and she carried a lantern that gave off a soft light you could see in the woods just outside villages and small towns.

According to her, it would wander around at night, and if you followed the light it would lead you out of town and into the trees. She said it went after children and criminals, and that anyone who followed it would be devoured, leaving only bones coated in wax behind.

I always assumed it was just something she made up to scare me, but I’m curious if anyone from England has ever heard anything like this, or if it’s just one of those strange one-off “family stories.”

I don’t remember exactly where she lived before moving to Australia, but I think it may have been somewhere in the Nottinghamshire area.