Batears Olafsen a Neglected Murderess

Now, let me ask you a quick question, boys and girls, "If someone called you bat ears, wouldn't you want to hack their ears off?" A simple question. Just imagine how dear Sarah Jane felt when at school the little chant going around the playground:
Sarah Jane had thirty bats
in her ugly green-gray hat.
Sarah Jane had two big bats
that served as ears to hold her hat.
Sarah Jane, Sarah Jane,
Born un bred in a stinky cave
lost her way to her lonely grave.

Born and bred in Bindweed, OR, it is said that she hacked to death 19 loggers between March 1904 and November 1907. Yes, boys and girls, she HACKED them to death. Now please note that our dear Edward Gorey said she "hacked to collops 19 loggers." NOTE the use of the word "collops" - translated means slices of meat. She ate them boys and girls, yes, she ate them. No wonder it was only 19 in 3 1/2 years.

I bet the doorway behind her is a lovely little smokehouse. The word collop is of Scandinavian origin also meaning a Swedish kalop stew. Beware, loggers, her ghost still walks the land in Bindweed.

There is another twist to the Gorey tale - Bindweed is a pernicious weed, a tenacious plant, which has bindweed gall mites that gnaw on roots. Yes, that is where our fair girl Bat Ears Olafsen is from.

Well, kitties, let us let her rest in peace. Deer slayer she was not. Dear slayer she was. How many hearts broke hers? We will never know since she decided to eat them instead. She and Hannibal would have been great friends, she was just born to early. Nite nite, sleep tight and don't let the gall mites bite. Yum, yum.... logger meat for dinner tonight. Yes, the crock pot is rockin'.