Rabbit!
When I was a kid growing up in Connecticut, I would listen to the radio in the morning while getting ready for school. My mother liked to listen to Ron Rohmer in the morning on WELI out of New Haven. One day Mr. Rohmer told us, “If you say ‘rabbit’ the first thing when you wake up in the morning on the first of each month, you will have good luck all month.”
I still remember that and try to say rabbit before anything else on the first day of every month. The tricky one is January because you have to remember to say it before you say Happy New Year!
I recently found out that this is a variation of a common British superstition that a person should say or repeat the word “rabbit” or “rabbits,” or say the phrase “white rabbits,” or some combination of these elements, out loud upon waking on the first day of the month, because doing so will ensure good luck for that month.
According to Wikipedia, the exact origin of the superstition is unknown, though it was recorded in Notes and Queries as being said by children in 1909. I located the reference on the Internet Archive website:
I thought that it might be a good time to share this — we could all use some good luck right now!
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