About that rabbit's foot

I have to wonder if the original belief, hundreds of years ago, was that the rabbit had to be alive and unharmed. You know, if you can get close to a wild rabbit and stroke their foot without them biting you, you must be lucky!

Since then, the original belief has been greatly corrupted, of course, and nowadays people are probably bringing themselves BAD luck instead! But they knew the old legends far better in the old days before industry....