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MINOR CHARACTERS IN WATERSHIP DOWN

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This is a list of minor characters in Richard Adams' novel Watership Down.

Sandleford rabbits

Ash, Butterbur and Pine-needles: rabbits mentioned by Holly in his description of the destruction of the Sandleford warren. Holly meets them in the woods, but loses track of all three when the digger arrives to destroy the warren.

Celandine: a buck mentioned by Holly in his description of the destruction of Sandleford. His dead body fell on Holly as he was trying to escape along the Slack Run; Holly had to tear at him to get past.

Nightshade: a buck who talks to the Threarah in the morning of the day of the destruction of Sandleford, before the men arrive; his fate is unknown.

Nose-in-the-Air: a rabbit who escapes during the destruction of Sandleford, along with another (unnamed) rabbit.

Pimpernel: a buck who escaped from the destruction of Sandleford with Holly, who said that he was "in a bad way". He was killed shortly afterwards by rabbits from Cowslip's warren.

Scabious: a buck killed by men during the destruction of Sandleford.

Toadflax: a member of the Sandleford Owsla. He pushes Fiver off a tasty cowslip (a coltsfoot in the film) right at the beginning of the story. Later, Holly mentions him in his story of the destruction of the Sandleford warren; Toadflax survives the destruction itself, but dies the following night.

Willow: a rabbit who joins Holly in "talking things over with the Threarah" two days before the destruction of Sandleford.

Hutch rabbits

Boxwood

Haystack

Laurel

Clover

Cowslip's warren

Betony

Kingcup: mentioned only when Hazel asks Cowslip a "Where...?" question and immediately Cowslip calls up a side run for Kingcup; Hazel hangs back and realises that the run in question has not been used for some time.

Laburnum: the rabbit who Cowslip mentions as having made the Shape in that warren; he does not otherwise appear in the book.

Nildro-hain: Strawberry's mate in Cowslip's warren; she is killed by a snare, following which incident Strawberry escapes to join Hazel's band.

Silverweed:popular poet in Cowslip's warren.As opposed to upholding the traditional tales of Frith and El-ahrairah like Hazel's group, Silverweed composes 'contemporary' poetry about everyday life in his warren.

Efrafa

Bartsia

Bugloss: a Captain in Efrafa; ajudged responsible for allowing Holly's party to escape, he is demoted and expelled from the Owsla.

Charlock: a Captain in Efrafa; "a brave and resourceful rabbit", he is run over and killed by a train whilst pursuing Holly's party as they flee the warren.

Groundsel: originally second-in-command to Mallow in Efrafa; later, he becomes Chief Rabbit at the new Vleflain warren.

Fiorin: a buck killed by General Woundwort; he was a rival to Woundwort as Chief Rabbit of Efrafa.

Mallow: a Captain in Efrafa; "of exceptional prestige and experience". The Efrafan Owsla is reported as being "upset and demoralised" when he is killed by the fox that Bigwig was drawing off.

Marjoram

Moneywort

Orchis

Ragwort

Sainfoin

Snowdrop: an old rabbit, a member of the Council in Efrafa, picked by Woundwort for his knowledge of how to protect a warren. After Bigwig brought Blackavar and the does out of Efrafa, Snowdrop advised Woundwort to "let it blow over", but was overruled.

Thistle

Thunder

Campion: a brave rabbit who helps the watershippers but gets touched by the black rabbit of inle to defeat woundwart but gets bad scars.

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CONCEPTS IN WATERSHIP DOWN

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Bob-stones: a very simple game popular amongst rabbits. One rabbit will cover a group of pebbles with his paw, while the other must guess something about their nature - one or two, light or dark etc.

Chief Rabbit: the ruler of a warren. Almost invariably a buck, but by the time of Tales from Watership Down we are told that the Watership warren itself is being ruled by an effective partnership of Hazel and his mate Hyzenthlay.

Elil: used to describe rabbits' many enemies: cats, stoats, men etc.

Hlessi: a wandering, solitary rabbit, usually found living above ground like a hare. Bigwig takes on the role of a hlessi as a cover when he infiltrates Efrafa.

Owsla: a sort of "court" of high-status buck rabbits surrounding the Chief Rabbit. Often they are fighters, but sometimes a storyteller or seer might win a place.

Owslafa: found only in Efrafa, the "Council Police" are a sinister organisation, commanded by Vervain, whose job it is to maintain General Woundwort's regime and to deal severely with dissent and breach of discipline.

Outskirter: a rabbit yet to achieve full size and weight, and therefore pushed somewhat to the margins when it comes to privileges of food etc. Most of Hazel's initial band are outskirters, including Hazel himself.

Rah: "leader" or "prince", used as an honorific suffix when addressing the Chief Rabbit of a warren. It also forms part of the name of El-ahrairah, which is a corruption of Elil-hrair-rah, literally Enemies-thousand-prince and generally rendered into English as The Prince with a Thousand Enemies. The word can also be used to mark something particularly good: see Flayrah, above.

Silflay: used as both verb and noun to mean the act of going above ground to feed.

Tharn: the state of paralysis which overcomes a rabbit in extreme terror; also used metaphorically on occasion (for example about Cowslip's warren).

The White Blindness: myxomatosis. We are told that (in the time before the story is set) the Threarah won his reputation and protected the Sandleford warren by mercilessly driving out any rabbit who seemed to be sickening with the Blindness.

Wide Patrol: an invention of General Woundwort, Wide Patrols are scouting missions covering long distances, usually lasting several days with rabbits sleeping rough overnight.

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Richard Adams' Watership Down
Rabbits: Bigwig - Blackavar - Blackberry - Bluebell - Campion - Chervil - Clover - Cowslip - Dandelion - Fiver - Flyairth - General Woundwort - Hazel - Holly - Hyzenthlay - Pipkin - Primrose - Silver - Silverweed - Strawberry - The Threarah - Vervain - Vilthuril - more...
Other characters: Black Rabbit of Inlé - El-ahrairah - Frith - Hannah - Hufsa - Kehaar - King Darzin - Prince Rainbow - Rabscuttle - Rowsby Woof

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