The magician, storyteller or master of ceremonies often wears a tophat, a hat which is worn on the head is the spirit consciousness, as the Vodou song to La Sirene mermaid is about the hat falling into the sea. The hat is the power of magicians thought and air/space and magick. Specifically a black hole, a center of darkness, out of black matter comes a spark, the stars, illumination, a point of intersected light as individual or pwen. Legba, may it be Kalfou or Lucero the magician is called for this reason, the cigar is sparked by the match, because without "him" the messenger, "angels" we cannot do magi.
Out of the hat or portal comes magic, tricks. Laying tricks as they say in Hoodoo. Out comes the rabbit or sometimes strips of usually red cloth such as a banner or bandana (active fire/blood/Mars, male Ogou sorcery) or a dove (of Venus/sacrifice). These are the dressings/perfume and materials for the stage science to involve the subconscious. But also represent material ancient spiritual acts. Seen below mimics with the fool card rucksack or Felix magic bag of tricks that is corresponded with the creator and the invisible void 0.
The rabbit is seen as a Hoodoo trickster of African American folk tradition. They also hold the childhood story of Briar or Brer Rabbit from African origin of the Hare. However trickster animals may be coyote/wild dog, or even raven depending on culture they share connection with creator process. Briar rabbit played possum/dead or injured/helpless or unassuming and was flung into safety of a thorny briar (western ceremonial rose bush/secret society scorpionic subrosa/ hedge witch).
Thus rabbit paws were carried for luck and to evade much larger predators/ oppressors for protection. In the story the fox made a doll trap on the road that the rabbit was able to evade with intelligence " I was born and bred in the briar patch" he taunted after. "You cant out trick a trickster, he knows all the tricks!" My dad would say as I snuck late back into the house as a teen. Also " you want to dance all night you have to pay the fiddler in the morning". Another adage.
Rabbit medicine is procreative as seen with the multiplication of bunnies at the Spring and Easter, as a generative and regenerative ancestral land force, flowers open and the potential or possibilities of the universe and sight/light, eggs are symbolised, animals are born for food and survival Thus rabbits are a symbol of abundance and prosperity also associated with the first of the month "rabbit rabbit rabbit" or "white rabbit" is chanted to usher in good energy, also sometimes used at a full hare moon in modern time.
We can see the white rabbit in the story Alice in wonderland as a sort of quest guide to follow to regain a sense of reality or self discovery on adventure of life. Jefferson Airplane's song White rabbit is about LSD or visions and alternate state and discovery of consciousness. Shamanically rabbits were an animal witches were said to shapeshift into, thus are connected to ancestors and necromancy. And in European shamanic tradition, the druid or hero was able to outsmart their foe by using the powers of the animals through their intelligence to transform and outsmart an enemy in tales.
The Springtime was an ancestral time, we only sync our calenders to the irish/catholic universalism of November, as many other cultures held this time in the spring it was said the grass blade were the snake tails poking out (The Golden bough by Fraser), and Gran Bwa is such as the evergreen Christmas tree.
Thus Brighid feast date is in February of the returning light and greenery of the land and is also observed passed torch over the hedge by the winter crone. Wells in the earth led to the ancestors, fairy mounds were ancestral burial sites, along with the staff and cauldron of the Dagdha. Thus we also celebrate the Ghede in Feb-April which also coincides with Mardigras and Ash Wednesday etc and retains irish and catholic syncretism in Caribbean history, victorianism, funeral rites and spirituality.
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