Question: What literature author uses a rabbits and hares species that is primarily a creature of Celtic folklore ?

text: List of fictional rabbits and hares
Literature

This is a list of fictional rabbits and hares. Fantasy hybrids such as Jackelopes are not listed.
Name Species Work Author Notes
Babbitty Rabbitty Rabbit The Tales of Beedle the Bard J. K. Rowling While at first a human witch , Babbitty transforms herself into a rabbit
Basil Stag Hare Hare Redwall & Mattimeo Brian Jacques Basil gave himself the middle name Stag because he greatly admired that animal . Basil is a bit eccentric , but an excellent fighter
Benjamin Bunny Rabbit The Tale of Benjamin Bunny , The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies , The Tale of Mr. Tod Beatrix Potter Son of Old Mr. Bouncer , Peter Rabbit 's cousin and eventually Flopsy 's husband and father of six bunnies
Bigwig Rabbit Watership Down Richard Adams The largest , bravest rabbit of the group who escape destruction at the Sandleford warren , he is bluff and tough . While helping to defend the rabbits ' new home at Watership Down from an invasion , he famously delivers the line , My Chief Rabbit has told me to defend this run and until he says otherwise I shall stay here . Bigwig matures over the course of the novel and saves Watership Down because he used cunning as well as his strength in the climactic battle
Br'er Rabbit Rabbit Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris
Bunnicula Rabbit Bunnicula : A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery , Howliday Inn , The Celery Stalks at Midnight , Nighty Nightmare , Return to Howliday Inn , Bunnicula Strikes Again ! , Bunnicula Meets Edgar Allan Crow Deborah and James Howe A vampire bunny that sucks the juice out of vegetables
Bunny Queen Janet Rabbit Voyage to the Bunny Planet Rosemary Wells The queen of the Bunny Planet , who helps poor rabbit children in distress who have a bad day
Buster Baxter Rabbit Arthur Marc Brown A white anthropomorphic rabbit who is Arthur 's best friend and has an obsession with aliens
Cecily Parsley Rabbit Cecily Parsley 's Nursery Rhymes Beatrix Potter
Cottontail Rabbit The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes Dubose Heyward Mother of twenty-one bunnies who is picked to be an Easter Bunny and is given the little golden shoes so as to deliver a very special Easter egg to a sick child
E. Aster Bunnymund Rabbit The Guardians of Childhood William Joyce
Edward Tulane Rabbit The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Kate DiCamillo
Fierce Bad Rabbit Rabbit The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit Beatrix Potter A bad tempered rabbit who ends up losing his whiskers and tail
Fiver Rabbit Watership Down Richard Adams An undersized rabbit who can occasionally foretell the future - a small mystical rabbit , a kind of Cassandra - he saves the lives of a dozen rabbits from the Sandleford warren , one from Cowslip 's warren , and several more from Efrafa . He is listed among The 50 Best Animated Movie Characters by Empire magazine and has been compared by some critics with oracular characters in the Lost television series
Flopsy Rabbit The Tale of Peter Rabbit , The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies , The Tale of Mr. Tod Beatrix Potter One of Peter Rabbit 's sisters and eventually Benjamin 's wife and mother to six bunnies
Flopsy Bunnies Rabbits The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies , The Tale of Mr. Tod Beatrix Potter Benjamin and Flopsy 's six children
God Rabbit When God Was a Rabbit Sarah Winman
Grandfather Bunny Rabbit The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes Dubose Heyward Lives in the Palace of Easter Eggs and is responsible for picking the five kindest , swiftest , and wisest rabbits or hares as Easter Bunnies
Harvey Pooka Harvey ( play ) Harvey ( film ) Mary Chase Elwood P. Dowd is an affable man who claims to have an unseen ( and presumably imaginary ) friend Harvey - whom Elwood describes as a six-foot , three-and-one-half-inch tall pooka resembling an anthropomorphic rabbit . ( from Irish/Celtic mythology )
Hazel / Hazel-rah Rabbit Watership Down Richard Adams Hazel becomes the Chief Rabbit of a group who flee from a disaster and create a new home on a hill called Watership Down ; the group includes Fiver , Bigwig , Blackberry , Dandelion , Pipkin , Silver , Holly , Bluebell , Speedwell , Hawkbit , Buckthorn , Acorn and many others . Hazel is loyal to all of the rabbits in his new clan ; he is a courageous pioneer ; and he is willing both to accept responsibility for his decisions and to trust his friends to make good decisions of their own