White Rabbits
 

white rabbits everyboddy,,,its the first of october,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,heloween month,
why do we say white rabbits,our family have said itfor as long as i can remember but i dont know why,,,,ANY IDEAS?http://www.smileytown.com/app_smiley...witch2_opt.gif

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WHAT YOU ON ABOUT GRANNY???? you mean they are fat enough for the curry pan?? if so all rabbits will be freshly frozen and served at the next accy web meet!chappattis , and poppadoms will incur a charge!

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Granny how did you manage to get that pic of Slink in the black hat in your post I've been trying for ages? :(

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pmsl.....................lol

:D

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Hi

I have been doing a little research and it seems a variation of a 1920 'Folklore' saying.

'According to several correspondents in the 'Westminster Gazette' (spring of 1919) the following belief is common in many parts of Great Britain, with local variants: To secure good luck of some kind, usually a present, one should say 'Rabbits' three times just before going to sleep on the last day of the month, and then 'Hares' three times on waking the next morning.1982 Woman c.50 (Stockton-on-Tees, Co. Durham) The first words you say for a lucky month are 'White Rabbits'. If you can remember to say that twelve times a year, you'll have a very lucky year. 1984 Woman 47 (Chichester, Sussex) If you say 'Black cats' on the last night of the month and 'White rabbits' next morning, you will get a present before the month is out." From "A Dictionary of Superstitions" Edited by Iona Opie and Moira Tatem (Oxford University Press, Oxford & New York, 1989). Page 192.

hope this helps it didnt really make it any clearer for me, hopefully somebody will have a black hat.

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my mum used to tell us it was good luck to say (on wakeing up) "white rabbits white rabbits"so mabe your right mantra.

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oops I said white rabbits at 1.30 this morning but it was before I went to bed so does it still count????? :confused:

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I didnt say or think of rabbits does that mean im doomed to bad luck then? pmsl

October lots of birthdays specially next week hmmmmm:)

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You are only doomed to bad lucky accymel if


its Friday the Thirteenth

you Walk under a ladder



or A bat flying into the house


you hear An owl hooting 3 times


you see 3 butterflies together


you Look at the new moon over your left shoulder


you find A 5-leaf clover


you Break a glass while proposing a toast


Putting a shirt on inside out

Red and white flowers together

on Hearing a rooster crow at night


you Cut your nails on a Friday


Putting a hat on a bed


Getting out of bed left foot first


Violets blooming out of season


A picture falling


Breaking a mirror


Singing before breakfast


Opening an umbrella indoors


Giving away a wedding present


Stepping on cracks in the sidewalk


An itch inside your nose


Crossed knives


seeing an owl during daylight



looks like were all doomed!
Bad Luck: A bat flying into the house

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Oh blaming 'eck out of all that the itchy nose has done me :( im dooooooooooooooooommmmmmmmed pmsl ....ah well nowt new there :)

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:o Who's birthday would that be then? ........ aaahh yes, your Dads :D


I thought you were trying to spoil my day then :(

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Yep me dads & aunties first then mmmmmm i wonder whom is reaching a big milestone soon other than me dad ??????:drunk: :rofl38:

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Well I thought that now we are in halloween month, I will be changing my avatar all month to fit in with Halloween!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:D

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Theres another which isn't very nice but i always used to be got with the pinch & a punch for the 1st of the month - i hide on the 1st day LOL Dont know who was responsible for that saying but wasn't nice at all:(

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my sons girlfriend comes from ross on wye,,and she says that everyone says that down there, i had never heard of that one before.http://www.smileytown.com/app_smiley...t/thnk0006.gif

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I think its southern my X used to do it an all & was common for him as he was from down south its really annoying & not nice:( naughty bad southerners with no northern soul:e12:

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Another bad luck one is new shoes on the table.....don't know why though.

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ive been brought up with my mum telling me that you have to say white rabbit on the first of that month, three times before noon only with the letter R in the month ie- white rabbit x3 in jan,feb,mar,apr,sept,oct,nov,dec and if you say it afer 12 then you get bad luck? im that bad at it that ive got my fella into saying it and his familiy too.
i never walk under ladders,
i try not to cross a black cats path,
i do not walk on nicks in the pavement and
i never walk over a single grate cover only a double one which is supposed to be good luck.
if i see a lonely magpie i will search for the other and sing the rhyme and salute them.
i never open a bag of crisps upside down,
i have never yet smashed a mirror!
im a lot worse but id be here all day is it me or are there others like me too and believe in all this nonsense?:rolleyes:

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It's not bad luck putting the shirt on inside out.
But it is bad luck to take the shirt off and put it the right way round.

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I remember at School doing "a pinch and a punch for the first of the month", I had never heard of it till I went to Rhyddings, maybe an Ossy thing?

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I've heard of pinch and punch, thought it was just an excuse to give a dead arm (haven't had one of them for years), I dont think I'm that superstitious but always say hello to Mr Magpie!

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WHITE RABBITS ,,EVERYBODY...


:engsmil: 1st of feb:engsmil:

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bring them down to stag and i will cook them for you no problem! :D

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nothing wrong with a bit of fresh meat?

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tell that rabbit that it's late

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said my white rabbits this morning on waking up ..... don't mind walking under ladders .....won't put new shoes on table but i definitly won't pick a knife up when i drop one .... stranger to visit mum always said .

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Is your house full of dropped knives or do you curse someone else by getting them to do the dangerous deed of picking them up for you?

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I've never heard of it, until Mez mentioned it to me. Still it explain alot.....