Does anyone else say “rabbit rabbit” as the first utterance of each new month?
Anyone know the origins of this custom?
Don’t know the origins, but I’ve heard about it all my life. But the way it’s been taught to me, it can’t just be your first utterance; it has to be your first utterance before your feet touch the floor in the morning. It’s tough to remember to do. I manage to pull it off maybe two or three times a year. (Didn’t remember this morning).
Oh, and it’s “rabbit rabbit rabbit.”
Never heard of such! Must be regional, maybe generational, but this is the first I ever even knew such a thing existed. It does remind me of the thing of lifting your feet when you cross railroad tracks, or putting your feet out in front of you when you cross a state line.
It makes me wonder if some of these things can be traced to a specific place and time.
Or holding your breath when you go through a tunnel?
Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit. Huh. Cool!
In the north of England some people do this, but I thought it was ‘White rabbits!’.
when I was kid I remember other kids punching people’s arms on the 1st of the month, and shouting ‘white rabbit’. Like ‘pinch, punch, first of the month’. Not a clue why though (I’m from south-east England by the way).
About all I can think of involving rabbits (beyond the fact that they breed quickly) is that their feet are lucky to everybody but them.
And that bit with the rabbit lady in Roger & Me.
Well, that’s interesting - I think we’re getting closer to some sort of origin anyway.
Thanks for the post.
rabbit rabbit rabbit rabbit rabbit rabbit rabbit rabbit rabbit rabbit rabbit.
mushroom mushroom!
sorry.
We do it - and try to be the first in the family to say it.
Mrs. D got me this a.m.
Drat!
Any idea why you do it? Where’d you learn it? Where are you from? Is it just a southern thing?