Love is a garden of thorns and a crow in the corn and the brake growing wild

[sovay]

Rabbit, rabbit! Happy May Day! A pre-school class out on a walk with their teachers just went by happily shrieking under my window. I am actually a little surprised that the real-life equivalent of the Studio Ghibli Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet I dreamed about watching last night doesn't exist.

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[sovay]

Can I ask why the "rabbit, rabbit"? I keep seeing it on the first of the month, and I'd love to know the background.

I don't know the origin! My mother's side of the family always said it on the first of the month; it is supposed to be the first thing said on the day, like a greeting. (I associate it with my grandmother first and foremost.) I assume it's a luck superstition, but I actually have no idea why rabbits rather than anything else, unless it's the same line of thinking as feet.

[newredshoes]

Oh! That's actually quite lovely. :)

[sovay]

Oh! That's actually quite lovely.

Thank you!

I did not realize until a few years ago that it was as widespread a tradition as it was. spatch was one of the very first people I met whose family also said it.