Why is a Rabbit s Foot Considered Lucky?
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Rabbit: *signature large ears*
Humans; "the foot must be magic"
He mentioned it was the whole rabbit at first - I imagine rabbits were hung about the person for luck until someone got tired of lugging the whole thing around lol
@@fatmn Nah... that was the punishment for killing one. (Tie it around the neck of the one who killed it, until it rots, and falls off of it's own accord.😅🤣
It’s the feet that make it fast, able to evade predators.
@@MarkLoves2Fly That's how we used to punish our dogs if they killed one of our chickens. Didn't leave them on quite that long though.
@@Devin_Stromgren effective , isn't it?
My take: if a rabbit is caught in a wire snare it may gnaw its own foot off to escape, and may even survive the shock and blood loss. If you're a trapper and find the foot without a fluffy corpse nearby, then you know that it _is_ indeed a lucky rabbit, and you've therefore got a bit of embodied luck it left behind in your snare.
"A lucky rabbit's foot."
Yeah, bet that rabbit feels lucky.
Yeah it's not so lucky for the rabbit is it.😂🤣😭
Well the faster rabbit feels lucky lol
“If rabbits feet were so lucky they’d still be on the rabbit”- *99% of comment this section*
"abra kadabra u re preggo"
OMG I laughed so hard at that!! That was so hillarious!!!!!
"If rabbit's feet were lucky, they'd still be attached to a rabbit".
Depends on how hungry I am lol
@Timothy McCaskey Only took ya a month to craft that gem response hey?
The word abracadabra closely translates to “I Create As I Speak,” in Aramaic. Abra means “I will create” and cadabra means “as was spoken".
Ha Brachab dabarah.
What about alakazam?
@@gatherformagic And Shazam! lmao
@@gatherformagic alakazam alakahpoo hobra codobra I'm glad I'm not you. It is likely of Arabic origin. Meaning the will of Allah. Perhaps from the Ottamans influence in Bosnia. Good luck.
You are correct! It is in the Talmud. It was borrowed by Hudini who wanted people to believe that he created majically objects. Hudini was a Talmudic student in his youth. My father was born on Friday the 13 and taught me to hate superstition and witchcraft!
Well one thing is for sure, those feet weren't giving the rabbits any luck
I think the idea was that the rabbit's foot absorbed the bad luck.
@Timothy McCaskey rabbits will eat eat too
I thought the very same thing.
Beat me to it. If the rabbit's foot really was lucky, it would still be n the rabbit.
Right!? 😭
Animal digs a hole and gets into said hole
“It speaks to the gods!”
Its just beyond me how they couldve just dug up the burrow and been like "huh, the rabbit speaks to the dirt. There are no gods in these holes."
Mischievous Fish I’m the rabbit and I speak for the dirt
@@Argonak1 Can't risk to piss off the gods.
Hebrew speaker here, "Abra cadabra" literally translates to "I'll conjure as I speak"
Abra became Evra in modern Hebrew, meaning I'll create/conjure.
Cadabra became Ce'Adebra, meaning as I speak.
Thank you Maayan.
A Mayan who speaks Hebrew, the marvels of globalisation
Except that you are fudging the words a bit to translate it that way, both removing letters, adding letters, and changing vowels to get the right form of the word. If it did come from Hebrew, it changed a lot through the years, keeping only most of the right letters, but not all of them.
Conversely, if it is Aramaic, little if anything, has to change. The literal translation being: I [will] create like the word.
Also talking about Harry Potter- "avada cadabra" translates to "it will disappear /get lost as I speak"
Aveda means object/life lost.
@@tmhchacham it's the difference between modern Israeli spoken Hebrew to a more "biblical" one, in order to understand you need learn how the language was revived and changed to fit the modern culture in the last 100 years, in any case the translation is correct 😊 the words are written the same no matter how you read them
אברא כדברא
The subtle background music always makes me think there is an ice cream van passing by.
“Some bonus facts” aka 1/2 the video
I actually found the bonus facts more in testing and more in depth, too.
I noticed many English say “having it off” and Americans say, “getting it on” 🤔
Bonus fact for you, Simon: 'Yt' in all likelihood is an abbreviation of 'that,' as back when the printing press first came out, the English still used the letter Þþ (called Thorn and pronounced as 'th'). However, there usually wasn't a Thorn in typeface sets, so a 'y' was often used in it's place, which is also why you'd see, 'ye' (as in, 'ye old shoppe'), which was meant to be read as the word 'the.' 🤓
The rabbit had four feet and they were not enough luck to keep him from getting killed so four people could have a "lucky" foot.
well? yeah, but they are yummy., the rabbit that is. I think I wrote the same thing , but in a different way.
They only used the one foot though. 1 rabbit died for just 1 schmoe to get a lucky foot.
@@_ZeroSum_ Why would you think they didn't just eat the rest of the rabbit? My theory as to why the rabbit's foot became a sign of luck is because the two rear feet are the parts you have leftover from skinning it, everything else is used as meat, fur and bones for broth, some rabbit farmer who wanted to find a use for those rabbit's feet other than compost decided to bullshit people into buying them for luck
The Negro part took me off guard 🤣😅
Here's an interesting story idea. Why is the magician's trick of pulling a rabbit from a hat iconic? Hint... it's really weird.
From the Mormon storey of how the ''golden plates'' were interpreted. Complete mocking of this storey by Vaudevillian performers. No charge.
Would you prefer pulling a hat out of rabbit?
@@alexblack8634 How would you get it in there in the first place?
@@stephenherbertson4544 gingerly
I pulled a rabbit out of grown man's ass once.
In the Chinese language, the phonemes for "four" and "death" are identical, and therefore doing anything in fours is to be avoided.
Couldn't they have just not started using the same sounds for the two different things? But I guess that's not really how it works...
@@minagica they arent using the same sounds. one is sì (four) and the other is sǐ (death)
@@angelmochi9630 ah, thank you! :D
@@minagica In Japanese, the sound is the same. 四 (four) and 死 (death) are both read "shi".
Homophones happen. English has loads of them. "Ate" and "eight", "two" and "to", "you're" and "your", "they're" and "their" and "there", etc. Natural language isn't designed, saying "why didn't they just do X and Y, makes more sense" ignores the fact that language isn't logical. They also never just "started" using "shi" for both words, the sounds of the two words gradually got closer and closer over time until they were the same sound.
This comment is just to stop there from being 4 replies. You are welcome.
My airline doesn’t have a 13th row, but my favorite plane to work on is serial number 666 haha!
Steve Miller Band loves the Bonus facts.
".... I wanna reach out and grab ya.."
Love that song!
I remember that song. 👏👏👍
I'm not dissing the song itself, but the *lyrics* to that song are very nearly the worst written any popular artist. And of course, Steve Miller is actually *more* notorious for another of his atrocities, "the pompatus of love."
And yeah, yeah, I know that if you dig deeply enough (which is very, very deep), you'll find out that somebody else made up that word before him. But that doesn't change the fact that Steve Miller's lyrics are generally shit.
@@Karin_Allen the song just popped into my head cuz he kept saying abracadabra. I don't know any more of the lyrics than that! LOL! I still contend that the Police have a good shot at worst lyrics in "Every Breath you Take"
@@thirstfast1025 Well, thanks to your comment, now I have that song stuck in *my* head! ;-( As for "Every Breath You Take," it may not be poetry, but at least it makes sense. It's about a stalker boyfriend. Steve Miller just throws together any pair of words that happen to rhyme. ;-)
Thanks for the Abracadabra bonus fact. I am a magician and can use this little tidbit.
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Who are you talking to? He's not there to read you your comment. In fact, he didn't even post this video. You " silly rabbit". Tricks are for kids!
Find him on Twitter; he's very active there.
Trix are for kids
Who was the first stage magician to use "Abracadabra", I wonder?
Interesting. I had a rabbit’s foot when I was a kid. My parents said it was lucky. I wonder what Steve Miller Band thinks of Abracadabra’s history.
I can't hear "abracadabra" without remembering Bugs Bunny in the Loony Toons short, reading the book "Magic Words and Phrases" aloud in a Brooklyn rabbit's accent, unintentionally transmogrifying the vampire stalking him. "Magic woids...it is to laugh."
I lost my foot in a boating accident a few years back..
My best friend wears it around his neck to remind himself of how lucky he was for not going with me on the trip.
"I wanna reach out and grab ya" You know...discarded feet of rabbits might have been in abundance at some point. then again...no one in any movie threw a rabbit's foot at a zombie or a vampire. how much 'magic' is in leftovers? i mean, here in North America...we're still trying to figure out a use for pumpkins. (Hint: Zombies and Vampires are not scared of pumpkins)
But if you hit him in the head with a pumpkin, it might slow him down for a minute
Pumpkins are used to make pumpkin pies most Americans know that. Can also make pumpkin bread some should know that also.
Okay, so first off my Dad has been known to just make stuff up, so take this with a grain of salt. He says the lucky rabbit's foot came from trappers. A rabbit would be caught in a trap and gnaw off their foot and get away. So when the trapper came around all he found was a foot from the 'lucky rabbit' that had escaped.
it is so good to hear Celtic pronounced properly.
thank you.
(Hey Daven): On the question of making a monthly summary of all the podcasts which you guys do; I'd suggest you do the same thing that _JRE Clips_ channel does, where you simply cut out highlights clips of the podcast and make a playlist for the best bits of the month.
This way, you and Simon don't have to go through each podcast again to remind yourselves of what to talk about to make the proposed monthly summary video.
... It's easy, after each podcast, just take out 3 or 4 highlight clips and save them until you can release the playlist of summary clips for the month. Cheers.
Probably something to do with how rabbits are hard to catch
This was was also used in folk magick. A blanket would be used with abracadabra on it and done a triangle dropping thé last letter each time. It was put up until someone had a fever and the magick blanket with the letters embroided in. And the fever would break soon, that of coarse was done with lots of fluids and foods high in vitamin C.
On the Celtic side of things, to take someone's head or hand was to harness their power. The same may have gone for rabbit foot, and very likely conferred some other power before meaning luck.
Like swiftness, or fecundity (fertility)
Hoodoo is a living tradition, itself an African Diaspora Religion still practiced and being lovingly reclaimed by many of us. One need only read or listen to African and AfroAmerican folklore to gain some understanding of the significance and power of a rabbit's foot.
Also, "mojo" has real import and refers to a Senegambian tradition of using amulets for various purposes. "Mumbo jumbo" is rooted in a reductive and dismissive racist mimicry of African languages and faith traditions.
I was taking you serious until you said mumbo jumbo is a racist mimicry of some obscure african cultural thing. Now I assume everything you said was taken from some internet article you read once. Oh well
@@grilledleeks6514 I find it interesting that this assertion upsets you so, and that you assume it's something i just "picked up". I'm not going to run you my CV, but this is something I studied in school across academic disciplines (linguistics, history, sociology, Africana studies). I would rather not argue about things I haven't actually looked into, but you seem to have made a different choice and I won't waste my time engaging with your reflexive rejection of facts.
"Mumbo jumbo" made mockery of African languages and particularly their connections to and use in ATR's. A mambo/manbo is a female priest in Vodou, the "jumbo" part has referents in nzambi/jumbie which are kiKongo-derived terms for spirits. The term "mumbo jumbo" mocked what colonial whites considered the primitive superstitions and practices of African peoples, which is also why hoodoo-voodoo is used dismissively/derisively.
reading that tapestry going down an back up i got AAAAAAAAAAABRACADABRA!
It's hard to get good lion lard these days.
"Abrahadabra; the reward of Ra Hoor Khut."
(AL III:1)
"There is division hither homeward; there is a word not known." 93
@@maximeprometheas zodir mozod iad
@@parkerzavinsky3824 Ateh amen shemchet he ael! :)
You don’t want a rabbits foot you want a rabbit missing a foot now that’s a lucky rabbit lol
Simon calling babies "parasitic poop and drool factories" made me laugh .
8:50 Sam was confused, he thought this was for Business Blaze? :-D epic meme hahaha
That lumé add was top notch. Solid advertising, I'm buying some.
My grandfather told me a reason the rabbit's foot was lucky.... he got away.
If a rabbit got his foot caught in a hunter's snare, then managed to chew his own foot off to get away before being discovered by the hunter.... then the foot that was left behind should be collected by the hunter as a sign of good luck.
My grandfather also used this tale to explain how in life, we sometimes get caught in bad situations but we cannot let them be our end.
Very intriguing
How could anyone not like a clip that contains ".... a baby is still a poop and drool" factory?! 😂
Damn Rabbits can get it on. Now we know where the phrase " going at it like Rabbits" come from.
Rabbit's foot is lucky because you're lucky enough to even catch a rabbit when it's hopping away from you
Friday the 13th is a local beach holiday where I come from. The more Friday the 13ths inn a year the better!
It's not even the next day, it's the minute the babies come out. Rabbits can even get pregnant twice within the same day, as they have multiple horns on their uterus and can carry 2 separate litters.
3:23 the scariest paragraph I’ve ever read in my whole life. 😬
Especially considering how unlucky that rabbit's foot turned out for the former owner!!
Almost time for a video on May celebration festivities at Padstow, Cornwall. Oss Oss!
In the immortal words of Mitch Hedberg: "But come on people on the 14th floor, you know what floor you're really on. If you jump out of the window you will die sooner."
Rabbit's foot.... meh. I've got my lucky roll of toilet paper
Getting one of the rarest of talismans, how lucky!
@@Bildgesmythe A family heirloom for the future😁
Definitely more useful
We are all lucky when we watch one of “Today I Found Out” ‘s videos.
Indiana jones, I loved the crystal ark movie
Um, what?
We’d be even luckier if we also watched a Business Blaze video
*PARTICULARLY IF* you're watching a #Video made by "Today I found out" requested by yourself. I'm still waiting on them answering MY suggestion. 😟. I'm sure they're busy, Although I'm not giving up too much hope about success with my submission. 👨💻📿🦄 👨🏫🐇 🎰🎄🧙♂️👹
he talks a lot of crap cause he is too lazy to research his topics properly. For example, the Scarab Beetle in his view is nothing more than Ancient Egyptian superstition. The beetle cover wings have anti-gravity properties, this is a scientific fact and can you imagine a race of people that built the pyramids being superstitious? we cant even build a pyramid today. He is arrogant and foolish undoubtedly a legend in his own mind. A bald fuk with a fancy accent
"Abracadabra" is a pattern based on the first four letters of the alphabet, abcd... Medieval magic had a tradition of using very long made-up "words" like abracadabra. Usually they were much longer and more complicated, so that they had to be practiced in order to be able to say them properly.
Which reminds me, how about "Hocus Pocus?"
Abracadabra was invented by Steve Millers ancestors.
Did no one else find Simon's description of 6 month old babies as heartwarming as I did? ;)
I use my magic wand to activate my magic looking glass to see the future, however the weatherman on TV isn't always right.
Raccoons have dong bones and people carry them for luck. I learned 2 things in the first couple minutes 😂
Abra CaDabra is Aramaic for "I will create as I speak".
It was either in Calvin & Hobbes or in Far Side, I saw a comic strip addressing the "lucky rabbit's foot". One character mentions needing one when the 2nd character states "It wasn't so lucky for the rabbit now was it?"
"Parasitic poop and drool factories" lmfao!!!
Starting from the single letter ‘A’ , going up on the right side of the cone, it spells, ‘Abracadabra.’
The black triangle is god ;)
And AAAAAAAAAAA on the left. Crazy.
Jerk for Sure oh my gah!! You’re right!!😉
And suddenly the reason Anya is scared of rabbits makes perfect sense.
Laurel KE Rossow
LOL! Love the “Buffy” reference!
@@autonomouscollective2599 Thank you!! I was so worried no one would get it!!
"Parasitic poop and drool factories."
Damn. Now I have to change my password.
Why do we knock on wood?
It has something to do with tree spirits. I don't remember whether knocking on wood wakes up good spirits or scares away evil spirits.
@@hueyiroquois3839 Spirits? People have strange Beliefs
Rabbit's foot- lucky to everyone except the rabbit...
"Journal of the plague year" is a spooky eye-opener as we're facing a corona virus pandemic.
Thanks Simone. Although I wish you had gone into the lucky penny thing. I am still going out, right now, today, and getting me a abracadabra triangle. You know, to protect me from the nCov'19. In Austria every new year is celebrated by giving those you care about a silver good luck coin. This are often beautifully stamped and either .900 Ag. or sterling silver. I can't wait to complete my collection. And then send it off to auction.
Peace.
My apartment building has no 4th, 14th, 24th, or 34th floors. The Chinese word for "four" and "death" are near homophones, thus the superstition. Similarly, the words for "pear" and "separate" are near homophones, thus you never offer a pear to a lover unless you are signaling that you are breaking up with them.
"Parasitic poop and drool factories" YES!! i finnally found a name for my punk-country fusion band
Simon looking like a Viking with that beard
Suggestion for a future episode: the origin of "Phoning it in"...
My building in DOES have a 13th floor and I work on it (I live in the USA).
I hear your getting fired this Friday.
@@brightstarlastname2812 When we found out what floor we were being moved to (we moved about 5 years ago), many people decided they wanted to retire. We lost about 20% of our workforce.
@@juliestevens6931 Some people just can't deal with superstitions.
PS. This week has a Friday the 13th.
That's why I made the joke.
Every video simons beard gets longer lol
Many record companies avoid having 13 tracks on albums
My dyslexia saw "rabbi's foot".
0:40 "Christians the world over wear crucifixes" while displaying a photo of a Christian cross. Only Catholics and a few Orthodox churches use crucifixes. Other Christians groups use crosses and still others use no specific symbol at all.
I dont think that people who aren't really "into" this whole Christian thing (despite being babticed) make a destinction between crucifixes and crosses, but use them as synonyms.
@@Hubilicious90 have you never heard of the Protestant Reformation? One of the points of contentions was icons. Therefore the Protestants took the icon of Christ off the cross turn the crucifix into a simply cross. No corpus, no crucifix.
I caught that too
@@the88thdarcstar hearing about the Reformation is far from knowing all of its details. I've definitely heard about the Reformation and even the figure of Jesus thing, simply wasn't aware there was a difference in meaning. Not everyone is aware of every possible detail of things they know about
@@the88thdarcstar of course I heard of the reformation, in fact, I'm from the country in which Luther sparked it. But what does that matter? All I said is that most western ("Christian") people aren't as hung up on their religion as they used to be and don't care for those semantic "subtleties" anymore; which honestly is proven by the fact that even a youtube channel which's main feature it is to look things up and do research on anything under the sun didn't care enough to make this destinction.
I mean cool that you know the difference, good for you. I personally have also acquired tons of useless knowledge and facts myself, but frankly most people don't care about those either.
Abracadabra also means ’With my words, I create.’
Abracadabra coming through to English from the Latin "Avra Cadavra" via Spanish would make sense. In Spanish the pronunciation of "B" and "V" is identical and intermediate between the English pronunciations of the letters' sounds.
Side question: Who came up with "parasitic poop and drool factories"? Emily or Matthew?
The Unlucky rabbit who lost it's foot to give some one else's good luck now isn't that magical.
Just think of this. Some dude, way back when, made up a word and had no idea that it would still exist to this day. The person who did it, would be forgotten to history, but not the word he created. Makes you think if you will ever do a similar thing.
Knock on wood, now that's good CZcams'n. Nice touch guy. Your writing always amazes me
"Here's a video about how the lucky rabbit's foot came to be." *click* "Well, we don't know, but here are some half-hearted guesses. Thanks for watching."
Well now I want to see a building with nothing but 13th floors, or an airline that uses row 13 on every row.
There were no rabbits in Celtic Britain, there were Hares a different species, which were worshipped by the Romans. Rabbits were brought to Britian in the 10th centuary by the Normans, and it took a long time to get them to breed! There are purposly built warrens assaciated with many Norman and middle ages castles.
Bring back winged phalluses!
I had read in a book on religions that it started as a killing curse/spell in Aramaic. You’re supposed to recite the persons name while performing the cone step. Don’t know if it’s true, and that book was written in the 50s.
Awesome videos Simon! I enjoy all of them, also your Business Blaze ones too. How long does it usually take to put a whole 'Today I Found Out' video together on a average?
TFW saying "abracadabra" is like saying "bless you"
- A friend of mine who studied the occult most of his life said abracadabra is a real magic word.
"Studied"
@@grilledleeks6514 - He didn't just study it.
There are no real magic words. There is no "real" magic.
How come so many old sayings are a contradictory issue?
Of course I heard that if a rabbit is caught in a snare that it would gnaw it's on foot off to escape and survived the blood loss and shock. But how in the hell can that be lucky? It's just like my bad luck. If I had a brother and he died the pallbearer would try and put me in the casket
"... Burning flame, full of desire, kiss me baby, let the fire get higher..." I forget what comes next...
This Friday is Friday the 13th. You should do a video
about why Friday the 13th is considered unlucky
I'm glad that the Enlightenment period happened.
Avra kadabra actually means "I create as I speak" coming from the interpretation of the book of genesis of whether God created from words only (something from nothing), so "Avra kadabra", or whether by reshaping materials (something from something)
One thing for sure... that rabbits foot wasn’t lucky for that poor rabbit... was it? 😂😂
Love the channel! Suprised your content gets demonetized so much. you deserve alot better and th team there
Thanks.