Can we start the month over? I forgot to say rabbits.
I know I have mentioned this before, but there is a superstition that if you say “rabbits”, or “rabbits, rabbits, rabbits”, or “white rabbit” as the first thing out of your mouth on the first day of a month. It supposedly brings good luck for the coming month.
It really isn’t very clear where this comes from. It seems to first appear in writing from the early part of the 1900s. Even Franklin Roosevelt was said to have said it every month. But where it started and why seems to be a mystery.
There are several different variations of what to say. Whether it has to be “white rabbit” or just “rabbit”. Or the word “rabbit” three times. Or whether you have to use white rabbit, but the evening before you have to say brown rabbit and walk down the stairs backwards to make it truly work.
It seems like a fun practice, but I never remember to do it. And once you’re past the first thing out of your mouth on the first day of the month, it’s too late. It has to be the first thing.
Rabbits do have an association with luck. Like the rabbits foot. It might bring bring luck to some people, but it certainly wasn’t lucky for the rabbit.
But no one seems to quite know where it came from or why people do it, other than to possibly bring good luck for the coming month. As usual, I forgot. So I guess I’ll just cross my fingers and hope for the best.
