The Earldom of Listowel was created in 1822 in the Peerage of Ireland. The subsidiary titles of the Earldom are: Viscount Ennismore and Listowel (created 1816), Baron Ennismore (1800) and Baron Hare (1869). The last is in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
Indeed, the Baron himself was not notable for immodesty within his profession and relative to his accomplishments, and Raspe's publication rather damaged his reputation.
Baron Munchhausen's adventures have also been published in Russia, where they are quite commonly known, especially the versions adapted for children.
Additionally, the Baron lends his name to the psychological factitious disorder Munchausen syndrome in which a 'patient' will feign illness in order to receive the sympathy and attention of others; and also Munchausen syndrome by proxy in which a 'patient' is someone (usually a child) in the care of the person suffering the disorder.
Some said the Hare was the swifter of the two because he had such long ears, and others said the Tortoise was the swifter because anyone whose shell was so hard as that should be able to run hard too.
The Hare ran on for nearly three hundred yards, nearly in fact as far as the winning-post, when it suddenly struck him what a fool he looked running races with a Tortoise who was nowhere in sight, and he sat down again and scratched.
The Hare and the Tortoise and a very few of the beasts saw it far off from a high bare hill that was at the edge of the trees, and they hurriedly called a meeting to decide what messenger they should send to warn the beasts in the forest.
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