Bunny origin story is more mysterious than you might imagine, and religion seems to have nothing to do with it ...

“For example, if somebody caught a pure white rabbit, they would be sent to present it to the emperor.” The people of China also have an other-worldly relationship to the symbol of the rabbit.

The “tip of the iceberg” for this string of disasters, Zelizer writes, was what came to be known as “ the killer rabbit ” ...