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My wife has this superstition that on the first day of the month the first thing you say when you wake up has to be, "Rabbit rabbit." Otherwise bad things happen.

Anybody ever hear of this?

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 1 September 2006 00:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah! - it was in a Trixie Belden book :) I did this for many many months when I was in grade school.

― jaq (jaq), Friday, 1 September 2006 01:08 (eighteen years ago) link

I still do it when I think of it. 'Course it's utter useless.

― Wench (jim wentworth), Friday, 1 September 2006 01:13 (eighteen years ago) link

I thought you were supposed to say "white rabbits" ? I think I must have been getting it wrong all these years :(

― C J (C J), Friday, 1 September 2006 07:31 (eighteen years ago) link

And the first reply should be "Hares"

Yes, I have heard of it.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 1 September 2006 07:33 (eighteen years ago) link

You got more rabbit than Sainsbury's.

― C J (C J), Friday, 1 September 2006 07:36 (eighteen years ago) link

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― beanz-ii (beanz), Friday, 1 September 2006 07:41 (eighteen years ago) link

I have heard of that, but more in the context of bringing good luck rather than "bad things will happen".

― sleeve (sleeve), Friday, 1 September 2006 07:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh and "Hello, Mr Magpie, how are you and your children" on seeing the first magpie on a month.

And not "SHUT YR CLACKING IT'S FIVE IN THE MORNING" on any given morning.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 1 September 2006 07:54 (eighteen years ago) link

First magpie seen on any morning = you have to say "good morning, your majesty" (apparently). This might be just a local Oxfordshire thing though.

― C J (C J), Friday, 1 September 2006 08:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Pinch punch first day of the month and no return.

― Ned T., Friday, 1 September 2006 08:12 (eighteen years ago) link

As for Magpies my mother-in-law says "Good Morning (afternoon/evening) M'Lud to EVERY magpie.

― Ned T., Friday, 1 September 2006 08:14 (eighteen years ago) link

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― C J (C J), Friday, 1 September 2006 08:15 (eighteen years ago) link

The girl I knew who did this was from Cornwall.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 1 September 2006 08:15 (eighteen years ago) link

A punch and a kick for being so quick, Ned!

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 1 September 2006 09:29 (eighteen years ago) link

i fawt it was white rabbits too.

― ilxbountyhunter, Friday, 1 September 2006 09:33 (eighteen years ago) link

I thought it was supposed to be "Good morning Mr Magpie and how's the wife and family?" and you only say it if there's only one magpie (to counteract the "One for sorrow..." thing).

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Friday, 1 September 2006 10:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Accompanied by a left-handed salute, of course

― beanz-ii (beanz), Friday, 1 September 2006 10:16 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost There you are, I was (nearly) right!

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 1 September 2006 10:22 (eighteen years ago) link

(x-post)nu-onimo is correct, at least as far as I'm concerned.

My other half is from Bristol and has a whole shed load of this superstitious mumbo jumbo. Anyone else heard of not doing washing on Boxing Day because you wash a member of your family away?

― Innocent_Boksen, Friday, 1 September 2006 10:24 (eighteen years ago) link

I've heard that 'bless you' after a sneeze is so a fairy doesn't die, and that if you say 'thank you' to the person that said 'bless you' it dies anyway.

― much_aldo_about_nothing (much_aldo_about_nothing), Friday, 1 September 2006 10:29 (eighteen years ago) link

You're not supposed to say thank you because in doing so you re-inhale the germs and then you die. According to my sister.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 1 September 2006 10:35 (eighteen years ago) link

I've told people the 'sneezing and not saying thank you' thing and they all just think I'm a cnut for not saying thank you.

So I keep thanking them just to be popular and fairies die willy-nilly.

― Innocent_Boksen, Friday, 1 September 2006 10:40 (eighteen years ago) link

I have heard of that, but more in the context of bringing good luck rather than "bad things will happen".
-- sleeve (sleev...), September 1st, 2006.

Yeah it's just about fertility innit.

― Masked Gazza, Friday, 1 September 2006 10:55 (eighteen years ago) link

I have heard of that, but more in the context of bringing good luck rather than "bad things will happen".
-- sleeve (sleev...), September 1st, 2006.

ME IN GLASS-IS-HALF-EMPTY SHOCKAH

I love the "washing away a member of your family." This might not be a bad thing. Shed those unwanted family members.

More superstitions, plz.

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 1 September 2006 12:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Rabbit, Rabbit

― Peasant Pains ///\\\/\/\/\/\\\/////\\/\\\\\//\\\/\, Friday, 1 September 2006 21:31 (eighteen years ago) link

I still do it. Family thing. I wonder if my sister's former ferocious reading of Trixie Belden had something to do with it.

― clotpoll, Friday, 1 September 2006 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link

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