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As with most [[folklore]], which is traditionally spread by word of mouth, there are numerous variants of the superstition, sometimes specific to a certain time period or region.
* "When I was a very little boy I was advised to always murmur 'White rabbits' on the first of every month if I wanted to be lucky. From sheer force of unreasoning habit I do it still—when I think of it. I know it to be preposterously ludicrous, but that does not deter me." – Sir Herbert Russell, 1925.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000329/19250710/034/0004 |title=On Superstition. Life's Fancies and Fantasies |last=Russell |first=
* "Even Mr. Roosevelt, the President of the United States, has confessed to a friend that he says 'Rabbits' on the first of every month—and, what is more, he would not think of omitting the utterance on any account." – newspaper article, 1935.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000321/19351127/044/0010 |title=Strange Superstitions |date=27 November 1935 |work=[[Nottingham Post|The Nottingham Evening Post]] |page=10|access-date=25 April 2012
* "On the first day of the month say 'Rabbit! rabbit! rabbit!' and the first thing you know you will get a present from someone you like very much." Collected by the researcher Frank C. Brown in [[North Carolina]] in the years between 1913 and 1943.<ref name=FCB>{{cite book |editor=Wayland D. Hand |title=Popular Beliefs and Superstitions from North Carolina |url=https://archive.org/details/frankcbrowncolle07fran |series=The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore |volume=7 |year=1964 |publisher=Duke University Press |___location=Durham, North Carolina |page=[https://archive.org/details/frankcbrowncolle07fran/page/384 384]}}</ref>
* "If you say 'Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit' the first thing when you wake up in the morning on the first of each month you will have good luck all month." Collected by Wayland D. Hand in Pennsylvania before 1964.<ref name=FCB />
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