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A rabbit's foot amulet is made from a dehydrated rabbit's foot that has been preserved and sometimes dyed in a bright color. Most rabbit's foot amulets sold today are made from fake fur and latex formed to feel like bones. They are often mounted on a keychain.
One theory is that the talisman tradition is derived from the pre-Celtic coming-of-age ritual for young boys. They had to first catch and kill a rabbit before they were apprenticed to hunters. In the ceremony marking their passage to manhood, they would receive the foot of their first rabbit kill.
In Voodoo traditions, it must be the left foot of a rabbit caught or killed in a cemetery, at the full or new moon. Some say the foot must be removed while the rabbit is alive. Other traditions suggest that witches were once believed to shape-shift into rabbits: thus, a rabbit's foot was thought to actually be the bones of a witch and therefore magical.
John L. Sullivan gifted President Theodore Roosevelt a gold-mounted rabbit's foot, and Booker T. Washington discovered it in the President's pocket.
R.E. Shay quipped, "Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit."
"The Occult in Folklore and Popular Culture"; Bill Ellis; 2004
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