is it some kind of good luck or something????
2006-10-13 10:15:18 · 10 answers · asked by sarmally 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
Found a website that gives some ideas (if you read far enough down!)
There are two basic theories (with numerous variations) surrounding the creation of good luck for the next month, the Rabbit / Rabbit / Rabbit theory and the competing White Rabbit / White Rabbit / White Rabbit Theory. Or is it "Bad Rabbit" from England?
This was a big controversy at the Lab (and indeed persists around the world) as the theories are not only competing, but also mutually exclusive. Is it good luck to repeat (like a mantra) the phrase Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit as your first words on the first day of the month, or should one say White Rabbit, White Rabbit, White Rabbit ... Or the Last utterance? And why does anyone care? Why Indeed?
Is it carnivorous (stealing others' luck) or gentle (getting better luck)? Izzy think it sounds like transliterated Hebrew, meaning "month abundant" or more simply "(have a) great month". Jan has proposed no fewer than 10 Rules! A Flemish Giant buck rabbit ties it into Watership Down. Kevin writes of a tradition in the US military. Ted quotes Shakespeare. Heather will send you monthly Alerts.
It is quite amazing, but a lot do care! Check out these Rabid Rabbiters ... Really, if you don't find this fascinating, even alien, you just might be dead.
How Old is This Thing? More than I bet you thought! Pat in Springfield MA tells of "a girl who worked in our office at that time who practiced the tradition since the early forties". Dayle first heard about this sweet superstition at sleep-away summer camp in Maine about 35 years ago. Peg tells of her mother using it as a child in the late 1800's in Kentucky! Gerald dates it from England before 1918, and suspects it came over from Normandy with William I. Dick believes his father (age 86 in 2001) got it from an uncle in 1922, and the uncle caught it in the First World War.
Location? Okinawans suspect it originated in New Zealand. Rostall heard of it as a young child in Spain. A Massachusetts man in Hawaii was introduced to the concept in Athens Greece from a woman from St Louis in 1972. Many strands trace it to England. Jenni in Yorkshire UK says "White Rabbits, White Rabbits, Rabbits, Rabbits, White Rabbits", while her mother also in Yorkshire said White Rabbits just twice at New Year.
2006-10-13 22:41:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
White Rabbits
2016-10-07 08:17:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are right, it's a luck thing. To see any white animal was considered lucky due to the rarity, (nothing to do with purity or race) same goes for a white Stag in the Highlands. As rabbits are far more common, and therefore easier for people to see, it was used instead of an animal like a Stag which is rarely seen at all let alone a white one. Seeing a white rabbit was a lucky event, it's more of a wish, get up, and wish to see the white rabbit. If you do it sets you up for a good month, people often said it, to trick 'nature' into giving them luck, claiming to have seen one when in reality, they hadn't. We still say it too, a quiant old tradition and a silly superstition, but it doesn't hurt anyone, so no problem. :) Lewis Carroll also used this in tempting Alice, (in Wonderland) to follow such an unusual creature.
2016-03-18 22:05:14 · answer #3 · answered by Katherine 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It all stems from the days when it was considered lucky to have survive into another month! Everyone used to go out on the last day of the month and get absolutely "Hammerred"
In those days, there was no such thing as "Toilet Paper" So, when you woke up in the morning, Dying to empty your bowels of the "Gut wrenching" beer you had the night before. There was nothing to wipe your A**e with!
Someone discovered that, If you use a "white rabbit", not only does it clean your A**e, you can also see the results of your wiping! So people used to wake up in the morning of the first day of the month and say out loud. "White Rabbits, White Rabbits, White Rabbits".
2006-10-13 18:51:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Rabbits Rabbits Rabbits
2016-12-26 18:39:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Yorkshire, people say 'Black rabbits, black rabbits, black rabbits' in the closing seconds of the old year. Then they say, 'White rabbits, white rabbits, white rabbits,' as their first utterance of the New Year. This is supposed to bring good luck.
I would suggest, that at the month's start, this is also for Good Luck!!
2006-10-13 10:24:06 · answer #6 · answered by Byjiar 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is only white rabbits on the first of march. Every other month it's just rabbits. I don't know why - probably just superstition or a way to irritate your work colleagues!
2006-10-13 11:05:40 · answer #7 · answered by Fifi L'amour 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are suposed to say it when there is an "R" in the month and say it three times spinning round and round for good luck for that month. So my gran used to tell me wonder what happens if there is not an R bad luck?
2006-10-13 10:25:33 · answer #8 · answered by momof3 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Comes from the Norse goddess Eostre whose symbol was the hare and the egg now bastardised by Christian mythology
2014-11-30 18:28:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably some kind of British thing - like "pinch, punch,1st of the month" - why do we do that? (Or is that cos we're just violent?!)
2006-10-15 00:01:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋