{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/eng/prwe/prwe213.htm","path":"neu/eng/prwe/prwe213.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/prwe/prwe213.htm","text":"WHIPPING THE HAKE.\nIT is not improbable that the saying applied to the people of one of the Cornish fishing-towns, of\" Who whipped the hake ?\" may be explained by the following :--\n\"Lastly, they are persecuted by the hakes, who (not long silence) haunted the coast in great abundance; but now being deprived of their wonted bait, are much diminished, verifying the proverb, 'What we lose in hake we shall have in herring'.\" - Carew, Survey, p. 34.\nAnnoyed with the hakes, the seiners may, in their ignorance have actually served one of those fish as indicated.","title":"Popular Romances of the West of England: Romances of Fishermen and Sailors: Whipping the Hake","type":"page"}