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There is another folk tradition which may use a variation "Rabbit", "Bunny", "I hate/love Grey Rabbits" or "White Rabbit" to ward off smoke that the wind is directing into your face when gathered around a campfire.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://folklore.usc.edu/i-hate-white-rabbits/ |title=I Hate White Rabbits | USC Digital Folklore Archives}}</ref> It is thought that this tradition may be related to the tradition of invoking the rabbit on the first of the month. Others conjecture that it may originate with a North American [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|First Nation]] story about smoke resembling rabbit fur. This tradition may be more of a social tradition in a group setting than a genuine belief that certain words will change the wind direction, and may be more of a childhood tradition than an adult one. Children have sometimes adapted from Rabbit to "Pink Elephant" or other comical derivatives.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/d6eki/what_did_you_do_as_a_kid_when_campfire_smoke_blew/ |title=r/AskReddit - What did you do as a kid when campfire smoke blew into your face? Did you say something? |website=reddit |date=28 August 2010}}</ref> Because of this more mutable usage, historical record of this is even more scarce than other more static meanings.
FWIW
My mother grew up in the former Czechoslovakia republic durng Soviet occupation, when I asked about the expression, she explained that meat was very rationed and havibg your own meat was illegal. At great risk people would breed rabbits and about once a month have fresh meat. I still say rabbit rabbit rabbit monthly - why wait until a new year for frsh hope?
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