[Cats Pajamas]

Say anyone remember who was it in congress that was conjuring, chanting rabbit over and over again?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_rabbit_rabbit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit%27s_foot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabb.it

http://www.thepsychicwell.com/metaphysics/superstitions-irrational-beliefs-or-cultural-mores/superstitions-about-rabbits/
Excerpt
..In the Medicine Card Deck, Rabbit medicine is about fear. He is the Fear Caller. Here is the lesson. If you pulled Rabbit, stop talking about horrible things happening and get rid of “what if” in your vocabulary. This card may signal a time of worry about the future or of trying to exercise your control over that which is not yet in form – the future..

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&biw=1229&bih=601&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=vEsTXtftNarb5gLdzI3QAQ&q=tinners+rabbit&oq=tinners+&gs_l=img.1.1.0j0i67j0l7j0i10.42816553.42851966..42856436...7.0..1.1123.10446.12j12j0j1j1j2j2j4......0....1..gws-wiz-img.....0..0i8i30j0i131j0i10i67j0i5i30j0i24._6xx1Jo43lo

[Cats Pajamas]

Back many moons ago several of us on the thread researched the rabbit (and Coney) to ad nauseum. Probably should revisit those digs for the newer freeQs. What do you think Texie?

The following one got by me somehow or didn’t register back then. For some reason when I came across it now I had a cold shiver go up my spine. One can guess why.

Grose’s 1785 “Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue” has “RABBIT CATCHER. A midwife.”