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Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of I Heart Radio. Hi, my name is Robert Lamb, and this is the Monster Fact. A short-form

theories from stuff to blow your mind focusing in on mythical creatures, ideas,

and monsters in time.

In celebration of the Lunar New Year, I thought today would be a great time to consider

the Lunar Rabbit.

Now exactly what you see in the dark splotches of the full moon

will depend on your individual and or cultural priming.

You may see a face, a man with a cane or a fork, a frog or a toad, or some other animal

real or imagined, but the rabbit has been a popular choice since time out of mind.

And why not?

Indigenous rabbit or hair species exist on every continent except Australia and Antarctica.

The rabbit also boasts a great deal of character inspiring numerous and varied tales that detailed just how that Rabbit made it to the moon or from the moon to the Earth in the first place.

Author Randolph S. Albright recounts several of these in his 2020 book,

House of the Three Rabbits.

According to Albright, the Yeruba people of Nigeria and the Wolof people of Senegal

recount legends of a rabbit sent down from the moon with the secret of immortality.

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