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In Like a Rabbit, Rabbit, on the First of the Month

According to a centuries-old superstition, saying rabbit, rabbit as soon as you wake up on the first day of every month will supposedly ensure good luck. Variants of this phrase include white rabbit, or white rabbit, white rabbit, or simply rabbits! If you forget, you can try to make up for it by saying tibbar, tibbar (rabbit, rabbit spelled backwards) at the end of the day. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a fan of this leporine tradition, as is Simon Winchester, author of The Professor and the Madman (Bookshop|Amazon). This is part of a complete episode.

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