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To meet a hare is a bad sign. (Lancashire and the North. However, if you have a loaded gun with you, such a meeting can hardly be called unfortunate).

If you carry a bunny bone with you, you'll never have seizures (everywhere).

If the hare crosses the path of the bride and groom (even if far away), their marriage will be unhappy. (North).

If you see a hare running along a path or along a road, know that your house is threatened by fire that day. (Northamptonshire).

Hares change their sex every year. (The old superstition is, of course, absurd).

The hare crosses the road - not good. (Everywhere. In Somerset it was considered a sign of imminent death).
Perhaps the oldest and most common superstition associated with hares was that witches most often turn into these animals. In his "Topography of Ireland" (ch. 19), completed in 1187, Cambrenice wrote: to this day, there are many rumors that some Welsh, as well as Scottish and Irish witches take the form of hares to suck the udders of other people's cows and steal milk from people. "Therefore, on May Day, the Irish killed all the hares that they noticed among their cattle believing that they were actually killing old women who were hungry for other people's oil. On the Isle of Man, May Day dawn served as a signal to start burning heather or gorse to roast all the witches who turn into hares. A similar custom existed in Ireland. Here is the story told by Mr. J. G. Campbell. A young man hunting on Lismore Island near Balnagon Loch shot a hare. The animal screamed in a voice that was not its own, and then the hunter remembered that there were no hares at all on Lismore. In fear, he threw down his gun and hurried home. The next day, he learned that a famous witch was lying at home with a broken leg. Of course, this is one of the variations on the themes of a story that was very popular in those days when witch hunting was something of a sport in Britain. The story was that if you hurt or kill a hare, then the next day the witch will be dead or wounded in the same place where the hare was wounded. Many old women were hanged or burned on the basis of such evidence. And now for a moment we will be transported from Ireland , Lismore and England to the Far Eastern Ainu. They believe that hares are bewitched people. If they see hare tracks in the snow, they dig them up, turn them over and bury them in the hope that the witch will suffocate afterwards. The ancient Britons used hares for divination, and for this reason they never ate hare meat. how Boadicea divined with the help of a hare: “Having lined up her warriors to inspire them against the Romans, she took out a hare from her bosom and released it so that the augurs could begin fortune telling. The frightened animal took off running, circling and wagging across the field, and along great luck could be read in his movements. The delighted crowd cheered loudly; Boadicea, using this opportunity, called on the soldiers to fight the enemy and win. "Cornish superstition says that a girl who is too much in love with a guy may die if he leaves her , and then will pursue him in the form of a white hare. It was believed that this vision appears to the traitor everywhere and no one sees it except him. This is one of the oldest Cornish superstitions, and there are many stories of men driven to suicide by a white hare. Sailors (especially Scottish) considered it bad luck to see a hare on the way to the ship. If a hare was found aboard a ship, it was considered an even more ominous omen. "Scotchman" in the last century reported on the case of young people who planted a hare in a fishing boat; their "conspiracy" was uncovered and they were brought before the sheriff. According to the Russian folk beliefs, a meeting with a hare also portends failure: "The hare will run across the road - unfortunately. You have a stump and a deck, we have a way and a dear! - they say [they say] to a hare who crossed the path. The hare runs around the village - to the fire". (Compare English superstition: "If you see a hare running along a path or along a road, know that your house is threatened by fire that day"). Russian sorceresses most often turn into cats and pigs (see related articles), however, hares are mentioned in popular superstitious stories as assistants to sorcerers and witches. In the Russian North, there is an idea of the soul of a person in the form of a hare. In the famous Old Russian "The Tale of Peter and Fevronia," Prince Peter's servant finds the wise maiden Fevronia behind a weaving mill and sees a galloping hare near her. This detail perfectly characterizes the prophetic nature of the healer who managed to cure Peter's ulcers and, having defeated the prince with her wisdom, become his wife. "There are more rabbits in a dry year, mice in a wet one."
The hare is so cowardly that he never closes his eyes - even when he sleeps.

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To meet a hare is a bad sign. (Lancashire and the North. However, if you have a loaded gun with you, such a meeting can hardly be called unfortunate).
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If you carry a bunny bone with you, you'll never have seizures (everywhere).
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If the hare crosses the path of the bride and groom (even if far away), their marriage will be unhappy. (North).
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If you see a hare running along a path or along a road, know that your house is threatened by fire that day. (Northamptonshire).
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Hares change their sex every year. (The old superstition is, of course, absurd).
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The hare crosses the road - not good. (Everywhere. In Somerset it was considered a sign of imminent death).
Perhaps the oldest and most common superstition associated with hares was that witches most often turn into these animals. In his Topography of Ireland (chap. 19), completed in 1187, Cambrenice wrote: “From ancient times to this day there are many rumors that some Welsh, as well as Scottish and Irish witches take the form of hares to suck udder other people's cows and steal people's milk." Therefore, on May Day, the Irish killed all the hares that they noticed among their cattle, believing that they were actually killing old women who were hungry for someone else's butter. On the Isle of Man, May Day dawn was the signal to start burning heather or gorse to roast all witches who turn into hares. A similar custom existed in Ireland. Here is the story told by Mr. J. G. Campbell. A young man hunting on Lismore Island near Balnagon Loch shot a hare. The animal screamed in a voice that was not its own, and then the hunter remembered that there were no hares at all on Lismore. In fear, he dropped his gun and hurried home. The next day, he learned that a famous witch was lying at home with a broken leg. Of course, this is one of the variations on the themes of the story, very popular in the days when witch-hunting was something of a sport in Britain. This story said that if you hurt or kill a hare, then the next day the witch will be dead or wounded in the same place where the hare was wounded. Many old women were hanged or burned on the basis of such evidence. And now for a moment we will be transported from Ireland, Lismore and England to the Far Eastern Ainu. They believe that hares are bewitched people. If they see hare tracks in the snow, they dig them up, turn them over and bury them in the hope that after that the witch will surely suffocate. The ancient Britons used hares for divination and for this reason they never ate hare meat. Borlais ("Antiauities of Cornwall") describes how Boadicea divined with the help of a hare: "After lining up her warriors to inspire them against the Romans, she took out a hare from her bosom and released it so that the augurs could begin divination. The frightened animal took off , circling and waving across the field, and in his movements one could read great luck. The delighted crowd rejoiced loudly; Boadicea, using this opportunity, called on the soldiers to fight the enemy and win. " Cornish superstition says that a girl who is too much in love with a guy can die if he leaves her and then chases him in the form of a white hare. It was believed that this vision appears to the traitor everywhere and no one sees it except him. This is one of the oldest Cornish superstitions, and there are many stories of men driven to suicide by a white hare. Sailors (especially Scottish) considered it a bad omen to see a hare on the way to the ship. If a hare was found aboard a ship, it was considered an even more ominous omen. "Scotchman" in the last century reported on the case of young people who planted a hare in a fishing boat; their "conspiracy" was uncovered and they were brought before the sheriff. According to Russian folk beliefs, a meeting with a hare also portends bad luck: "A hare will run across the road - unfortunately. You have a stump and a deck, we have a path and a dear! - they say (yell) to a hare that has crossed the path. A hare runs through the village - to a fire." (Cf. English superstition: "If you see a hare running along a path or along a road, know that your house is threatened by fire that day"). Russian sorceresses most often turn into cats and pigs, but hares are mentioned in superstitious folk stories as assistants to sorcerers and witches. In the Russian North, there is an idea of the human soul in the form of a hare. In the famous Old Russian "The Tale of Peter and Fevronia," the servant of Prince Peter finds the wise maiden Fevronia at the weaving mill and sees a galloping hare near her. This detail perfectly characterizes the prophetic nature of the healer who managed to cure Peter's ulcers and, having defeated the prince with her wisdom, become his wife. "There are more rabbits in a dry year, mice in a wet year." Sign:
The hare is so cowardly that he never closes his eyes - even when he sleeps.

The hare will cross the road - unfortunately

belief (very old)

Wed hare jumping u / l from under the kochi.

Zainka, stop! don't you dare

Cross my path!

Nekrasov. Jack Frost.

Wed adversity, brother... the hare crossed the road What kind of hunting is there? Whatever I do, bang, is either a poodle or a misfire.

Ostrovsky. Wolves and sheep. 15.

Wed Es ist ihm ein Hase über den Weg gelaufen.

Wed Lepus apparens infortunatum facit iter.

Erasm. 1945.

Wed φανείς λαγώς δυστυχείς ποιεί τρίβους .

A hare will appear - it brings misfortune.

Suidas. Astrampsich. (4b.?) Cowcatcher.

Russian thought and speech. Yours and someone else's. Experience of Russian phraseology. Collection of figurative words and parables. T.T. 1-2. Walking and well-aimed words. Collection of Russian and foreign quotations, proverbs, sayings, proverbs and individual words. SPb., type. Ak. Sciences.. M. I. Mikhelson. 1896-1912.

See what "a hare will cross the road - unfortunately" in other dictionaries:

The hare will cross the road unfortunately. See HAPPINESS LUCK…

The hare will cross the road unfortunately, believe me (very old). Wed The hare jumped from under the kochi, Hare, stop! don't you dare cross my path! Nekrasov. Frost red nose. Wed Adversity, brother ... the hare crossed the road, what is it here ... ...

- (according to Pavsky hare) husband. the generic name of the animal, from the category of rodents, Lepus; bonfire fast, pitch, eagle. vytorepen, orenb., Tatars. kuyan, sib. ushkan, psk. crooked, joke. oblique, stubby, lop-eared; novg. biley (white, white). Hunters have yarovik, ... ... Dictionary Dalia

The century will stretch, everyone (everyone) will get it. Day after day does not come. Day after day does not fall, hour after hour does not fall. Everything happens in the world (and it happens that nothing happens). A mountain will not converge with a mountain, but a person with a person (or: a pot with ... ... IN AND. Dal. Proverbs of the Russian people

Michelson's Big Explanatory Phraseological Dictionary (original spelling)

See the hare will run across the road unfortunately ... Michelson's Big Explanatory Phraseological Dictionary (original spelling)

- φανεὶς λαγὼς δυστυχεῖς ποιεῖ τρίβους. See the hare will run across the road unfortunately ... Michelson's Big Explanatory Phraseological Dictionary (original spelling)

If the bride drops her handkerchief under the crown, and the groom picks it up, he will soon die. Whoever plants a willow on himself prepares a spade (he will die when a shovel can be hewn out of a willow). big harvest mountain ash for a difficult year, for smallpox (for frost). Large frost in ... ... IN AND. Dal. Proverbs of the Russian people

RUN, run across, run across, run over what, through what where: The hare ran across the road (across) unfortunately. Don't run across the street in front of horses. The wolf ran from peg to peg. The naked will run across the field, but the hungry will not move. Water across the road... Dahl's Explanatory Dictionary

Our ancestors lived for many centuries surrounded by domestic animals and birds, and therefore we inherited a lot of signs associated with dogs and cats, cows and sheep, chickens and geese.

In addition, unlike us, the ancestors existed in close connection with wildlife and all its inhabitants, using foxes and hares, wolves and elks as real oracles. For example, a fox running across the road promised a lot of trouble, and an elk encountered on the way promised a difficult journey. And what can be expected from the spectacle of an innocent bunny or rabbit?

Signs about hares

A gray hare galloping along the forest edge could tell knowing person a lot of interesting things about the future. Moreover, despite the charming appearance of the animal, most often such a meeting promises little good to the eyewitness.

It is especially undesirable to see the "oblique" winter sometimes, when his fur coat becomes White color. It is believed that such an eared "fortune teller" promises only problems and troubles if you decide to cross your path.
Is a snow-white animal rushing along the road at full speed and is not going to cross your path? Still, you should not hope that trouble can be avoided. After all, such behavior of the animal portends a big fire.
A bad omen is the meeting of the wedding procession with the long-eared "runner". If a hare crosses the young road, then they family life will certainly go wrong very quickly and end in divorce.
Sailors have their own belief about meeting with the "oblique". It is extremely undesirable if there is a long and difficult voyage ahead. The unlucky conqueror of the open spaces, whose path was crossed by a hare, should wait a little with access to the open spaces of the sea, and it is better to stay away from small rivers for some time.
Our ancestors believed that a hare met on the way by a pregnant woman was a bad omen. If the animal crossed her path, then the baby risked being born with a “decoration” in the form of the so-called “hare lip”.
It happens that young animals, due to inexperience, sometimes suddenly find themselves on the road, where they often fall under the wheels of cars. If such a nuisance happened to you, then you should prepare for the continuation of the “black streak” in life.

Rabbit in the house - danger or positive?

Many dream of having their own tame rabbit in the apartment. After all, they are such funny and cute creatures. However, superstitious people are stopped by bad omens built by the people about their wild counterparts - hares. So what does the presence of a long-eared pet promise the family?

It turns out that the fluffy rabbit brother, briskly jumping around the rooms, is not at all as “dangerous” as his forest relative. In fact, his presence in the house will certainly have a positive impact on the material well-being of the family, bringing household members a promotion, an unexpected inheritance or winning the lottery.
Anyone who dreams of a large and friendly family with many children must certainly have a rabbit in the house. His positive will immediately have a positive impact on his personal life, and there it’s not far from the wedding.
Everyone knows that the rabbit's foot brings good luck. If four such talismans appear in your apartment at once, then there is no doubt about the long-term favor of fortune, as well as its rich and numerous gifts.

V. A. Korshunkov

The Slavic peoples have long and widely known signs and beliefs, according to which it was necessary to be wary of a hare that crossed the road or met on the way. This has been repeatedly noted in the specialized literature 1 . Here, for example, in the old reference book by M. D. Chulkov, which was popular in the 18th and early XIX c., it is said: “... it does not bode well when a hare or other animal runs across the road” 2 . It is interesting that the hare is in the first place here, and only then about some other animal is added.

The Vyatka forester, hunter and writer Vladimir Morozov wrote well about the hares that cross the path of a person: “The day was equal to the night, and the hares set off with joy. White day in the yard, but they seem to have no decree. Between the willow bushes they jump, they play catch-up tags. They slap each other on the back with their paws, agree on who to drive next. They roam back and forth, cross the path-road.

A well-known case: a hare will run across a person’s road - you can go further and not go at all. Not that there is good luck or success in the planned business - there will be no way at all.

Well, yes, and you don’t be a bastard, shout immediately against them, cunning ushkans, a lapel word. As soon as a stubby tail flickers ahead across the path, immediately after him and bark:

- You, oblique, a stump and a deck, but I have a way and a road!

Wrap back your luck, do not let it keep up with the fresh scented trail. And then, after all, her cunning animal will get lost, will wear out on frequent crests of spruce branches, drown in deep snowdrifts.

Good luck, you and yourself, you must think, will come in handy ”3.

In general, the list of messengers of misfortune crossing the road is very extensive. Apparently, it was not so important even who exactly crossed the path - more important is the fact that the path was crossed by someone. This in itself was perceived negatively.

Russian residents of the Urzhum district of the Vyatka province in the second half of the 19th century. knew: “A cat, a dog, a hare crosses the road - there will be no way” 4. The compilers of a statistical report on the Russian inhabitants of the Kotelnich district of the Vyatka province in 1850 pointed to a sort of superstition: when going hunting and fishing, they do not remember either a priest or a hare. And “if a hunter meets a priest on the way or a hare crosses his path, he turns back home and on this day he no longer dares to go hunting” 5.

Even in the "Tale of Bygone Years" (a record of the events of 1068) it was said about such a sin as faith "in a meeting." There was mentioned an ominous encounter with a monk, a boar or a pig. It is known that in Russia they were also afraid to meet a foreigner and a heterodox, a woman or a girl with empty buckets, a mouse, a bald horse, etc.

And yet, such a seemingly harmless animal as a hare is very noticeable among other messengers of misfortune that could arise on a person’s path.

Vyatka ethnographer and priest G. E. Vereshchagin (1851–1930) wrote down the following byline from Vyatchan Vasily Zvonov: “One day I was lying by the forge in a factory and I saw. A child of 2-3 years old is walking towards the forge... I crossed myself and said: “Lord, bless”, and the child, having become a hare, jumped into the forge
and disappeared. Others have seen it too."

The hearth is an industrial furnace, the temperatures in which reach very large values. It was there, into the fire, that a strange creature in the guise of a hare rushed. Characterized by an underlying readiness to see in a hare evil spirit. That's right - this animal seemed to be the embodiment of evil spirits, the offspring of an evil, "otherworldly" force.

Indeed, the hare among the Slavs seemed to be an animal that had demonic properties, unclean and dangerous. It is associated with the goblin, the devil, or some other evil spirit. Therefore, a meeting with him was more dangerous than even with a wolf; a wolf crossing the path is good. Goblin, according to popular beliefs, had their own cattle, which consisted of animals that lived in the forest - primarily hares. A hare could turn out to be a werewolf, he became a whirlwind, and evil spirits in the form of a hare tried to run across the road to a hunter or a wedding train 7 .

In the Kama region, adjacent to the Vyatka region, the following folk story is recorded: “A man was guarding a turnip. The hare came running. He is his, it means: “Carry you, Leshak!” Leshak soon came to him with a body: “Come on, sit down.”<…>It was such a legend that it was impossible, when a hare was running, to send him to the goblin, otherwise he would carry you away ”8. This very curse that escaped after the hare is very significant: they say, it would be necessary for this malicious animal to be carried past and without damage! But the story, in fact, is about how the peasant did not take into account the close connection between the hare and the goblin, for which he paid.

And sometimes the people directly stated that the goblin turns into a hare.

Why in the form of a hare (or any other animal that crossed a person’s road and thereby brought misfortune) was it precisely the goblin? Obviously, first of all, because human paths too often in our conditions passed through the forest or near it, that is, through the possessions of the devil. And most importantly: it was the forest "owner" (obviously becoming like a beast subject to him) who himself liked to walk along his own paths, frightening those who, due to inexperience or carelessness, were located on them. That is, among other mythological characters, it was the goblin that was associated with movement, with forest paths, with paths-roads 9 .

Beliefs similar to those of the Russians were among the Finno-Ugric and Turkic peoples who lived within the Russian state. They were also afraid to meet a hare on the way.

Among those living in the middle Pechora, the Komi hypostasis of the soul, called "urös", could receive different zoomorphic guises. For example, the sight of a hare throwing itself at its feet. Then it foreshadowed death or misfortune 10 .

And here is an expressive evidence of the “superstition” of the Cheremis (Mari) of the Verkhoturye district (this is in the Urals), dated 1738: “If one of them goes to some kind of trade, and if he meets a male or female with some later utensils, or a bird zholna or a hare towards or across the road, then he will return and will not go fishing that day. And they consider it a misfortune to themselves that there will be no prey in the fishery. And in happiness they don’t know any note ”11.

Udmurts, going to matchmaking, prayed that the road would be good, so that “a man with evil eyes”, “a man with heavy legs”, “with empty buckets going for water” would not meet along the way. And if the path was crossed by a hare, then they completely turned back, “since such a crossing of the path, in their opinion, always entails not only failure, but even some great misfortune” 12.

In general, the hare is an animal associated with the dangerous "other world" and the mythological "owners" of the forest. Any crossing of the path in front of a walking person was considered undesirable and even harmful. These two ideas became the basis of common signs and beliefs, according to which a hare that crosses the road is not good.

The writer Vikenty Veresaev, in his notes “Spouses (dotted portrait)” (1940) from the cycle “Unfictional stories about the past”, cited the reasoning of a certain woman: “I could never understand how people believe in all sorts of prejudices. Well, I understand: thirteen people at the table, three candles, a hare ran across the road ... And all sorts of prejudices there ... I don’t understand ”13.

Notes

1 Gura A. V.: 1) The symbolism of animals in the Slavic folk tradition. M., 1997. S. 191–192; 2) Hare // Slavic antiquities: ethnolinguist. words. / under total ed. N. I. Tolstoy. M., 1999. T. 2: D-K (Kroshki). S. 287.
2 [Chulkov M.]. Abevega of Russian superstitions, idolatrous sacrifices, common people's wedding rites, witchcraft, shemanism, etc., composed by M. Ch. M., 1786. S. 191.
3 Morozov V.I. folk calendar. Kirov, 2001, p. 7.
4 Magnitsky V. Beliefs and rituals (zapuks) in the Urzhum district of the Vyatka province. Vyatka, 1883. No. 82.
5 Materials on the state of the districts of the province for 1850. Vol. 2 // GAKO. F. 574. Op. 1. D. 12. L. 166.
6 Vereshchagin G. E. Sobr. op. : in 6 vols. Izhevsk, 1998. Vol. 3: Essays on Russians in the Vyatka-Prikamsky region. Book. 2, no. 2. S. 93.
7 Gura A.V. Symbolism of animals in the Slavic folk tradition. pp. 186–192.
8 Bylichki and byvalshchina: Old Testament stories recorded in the Kama region / comp. K. E. Shumov. Perm, 1991. No. 53.
9 Korshunkov V. A. Weddings of goblin and goblin paths: mythological features of the folk “culture of the way” // Through the borders: kulturol. alm. / Ch. ed. N. I. Pospelova. Kirov, 2006. Issue. 5. S. 290–295.
10 Limerov P.F. Mythology of the underworld. Syktyvkar, 1998. S. 15, 81.
11 Ivanov A. G., Sepeev G. A. Materials of V. N. Tatishchev’s questionnaire about the Mari of the Urals in the 30s of the XVIII century // Mari Archaeographic Bulletin. 1994. No. 4. S. 102.
12 Ilyin M. I. Wedding customs and rituals among the Votyaks / ed. F. Streltsova // Tr. scientific islands for the study of the Votsky region. Izhevsk, 1926. Issue. 2 / ed. F. Streltsova. S. 30.
13 Veresaev V. Non-fictional stories about the past // Veresaev V. Sobr. op. : in 5 vol. M., 1961. T. 4. S. 282–283.