Trickster Magic: A Banishing Rite
FIELD REPORT #2
Filed From: The Otherworld Embassy
Classification: Open Transmission - Trickster Protocols
Subject: The Hillbilly Hare Banishing Rite
Filed By: Ambassador [SD Lovell]
Date Filed: [October 21, 2025]
This document is part of an ongoing record of cross-realm contact as observed through human experience. Each report captures a moment of interference, revelation, or communication between worlds. Read with curiosity. Proceed with sovereignty.
Sometimes the most powerful magic wears the mask of play.
This banishing rite came through a 1950 Warner Bros cartoon—but don't let that fool you. The Otherworld doesn't only speak through ancient grimoires and solemn ritual. Sometimes it speaks through Bugs Bunny.
This is real magical technology dressed in cartoon logic. Which makes it no less effective. Maybe more so.
Hillbilly Hare: The Source Material
From "Hillbilly Hare" (1950), Warner Bros. - Lyrics below used for educational/commentary purposes
Three hands up and round you go!
Break it up with a dosey doe.
Chicken in the bread pan, kickin' out dough.
Skip to ma Lou, my darling!
The old lady out, you pretty little thing!
Promenade around the ring!
Big foot up and little foot down!
Make that big foot jar the ground!
Lady step back and two gents in!
Back you go and forward again!
Step right up with an elbow swing!
Skip to ma Lou, my darling!
Allemande left with the old left hand!
Follow through with a right-left grand!
Meet your honey with a great big smile!
Promenade Indian style!
Bugs Bunny:
Promenade across the floor!
Sashay right on out the door!
Out the door and into the glade,
And everybody promenade!
Step right up! You're doing fine.
I'll pull your beard! You pull mine!
Yank it again like you did before!
Break it up with a tug o'war!
Now into the brook and fish for the trout!
Dive right in and splash about!
Trout, trout, pretty little trout –
One more splash and come right out!
Shake like a hound dog! Shake again!
Wallow around in the ol' pig pen!
Wallow some more! You all know how.
Roll around like an ol' fat sow!
Allemande left with your left hand!
Follow through with a right-left grand!
Now leave your partner, the dirty ol' thing!
Follow through with an elbow swing!
Grab a fence post! Hold it tight!
Whomp your partner with all your might!
Hit him in the shin! Hit him in the head!
Hit him again! That critter ain't dead.
Whomp him low and whomp him high!
Stick your finger in his eye!
Pretty little rhythm, pretty little sound –
Bang your heads against the ground!
Promenade all around the room!
Promenade like a bride and groom!
Open up the door and step right in!
Close the door and into a spin!
Whirl, whirl, twist and twirl –
Jump all round like a flying squirrel!
Now don't you cuss and don't you swear!
Just come right out and form a square!
Now right hand over and left hand under,
Both join hands and run like thunder!
Over the hill and over the dale –
Duck your head and lift your tail!
Don't you stray and don't you roam
Turn around and promenade home
Corn in the crib pen, wheat in the sack!
Turn your partner and promenade back!
And now you're home. Bow to your partner. Bow to the gent across the hall. And that is all!
The Trickster's Banishing Rite
aka: "What's Up, Hex?"
This rite is to be used when:
Energy feels stuck or stagnant
You're being pestered by intrusive vibes
You need to dislodge weirdness with weirder weirdness
You just want to have some fun with your magic
"To defeat a thing, you must understand its punchline."
What You'll Need:
A mirror or reflective surface (optional)
A speaker or phone with "Hillbilly Hare" queued up (available on YouTube)
A hat, carrot, or something ridiculous (absolutely encouraged)
Optional: chalk, lipstick, or marker to draw a sigil or symbol of chaos (like a spiral, zigzag, or bunny ears) on the mirror
Step 1: Call the Trickster
Stand before your mirror or ritual space. Take a breath. Then say:
"By fiddle's fire and Bugs's flair,
Confusion go and joy repair.
What clings too tight, now lose its grip—
I summon chaos with a whip!"
(Optional: snap fingers dramatically, crack an imaginary whip, or throw glitter like a weapon.)
Step 2: Press Play
Start "Hillbilly Hare." The moment the fiddle kicks in, start moving. Dance, hop, skip, moonwalk—whatever ridiculous thing your body wants to do.
Imagine every wild note is uncorking stuck energy and tripping up negative intrusions.
As the music builds, picture:
Vibes being thrown into hay bales
Intrusive spirits slipping on banana peels
Shadowy figures being hypnotized by cartoon logic
Bugs Bunny winking as your energetic field expands and glows with absurd sovereignty
Step 3: Chaotic Dismissal
When the music ends (or when it feels right), strike a silly pose. Then say:
"Dismissed, disbanded, bamboozled, gone!
By rabbit's wit, this game is won.
No grip remains, no gloom shall stay—
The Trickster's cleared the clouds away."
Bow (to yourself, to Bugs, to the mirror). Snap your fingers twice. Done.
Post-Ritual Notes:
You may feel lighter, weirder, giddier. That's perfect.
Keep a trickster playlist on standby. It's potent magic.
This rite is especially effective in liminal hours, on Wednesdays (Mercury's day), or any time you're feeling too serious.
Why This Actually Works
Square-dance calls are already incantations - rhythmic commands that direct movement and organize chaos into pattern through sound. The spell is a brilliant piece of work, and here's the magic hidden in plain sight:
The Structure Is The Spell:
Rhythm + rhyme + command + laughter = chaos magic's perfect fuel
Each verse gives you an action: promenade, spin, shake, whomp
You're literally moving stuck energy through your body while the music plays
The Progression Is Initiatory:
Form the space ("round you go" - create the circle)
Break and reform ("dosey doe" - unstick what's stagnant)
Cross the threshold ("out the door and into the glade" - enter liminal space)
Baptism ("into the brook" - water cleansing)
Grounding ("wallow in the pig pen" - earth element, embodied purification)
Reversal ("whomp your partner" - turn aggression back on itself through absurdity)
Return home ("promenade back" - close the circle)
The Absurdity Is The Point: When you're too busy laughing at yourself doing ridiculous movements, your ego can't interfere with the magic. The Trickster teaches through play - and play is how we slip past our own defenses.
Your rational mind is busy giggling at "shake like a hound dog" while your energetic body is actually banishing stuck patterns and intrusive vibes.
Plus: The spell triggered actual square-dancing mania at Warner Bros during breaks - the animators couldn't stop doing it. That's the Trickster current breaking through into consensus reality.
It's not "just silly." It's intentionally silly. And that's what makes it work.
End of Report
Embassy Note:
The Otherworld doesn't care about your dignity. The Otherworld cares about results.
Bugs Bunny—Trickster incarnate, chaos agent, boundary-crosser—handed us a fully functional banishing spell wrapped in hillbilly slapstick. And it works precisely because it refuses to take itself seriously.
This is what magic looks like when it remembers it's supposed to be alive, responsive, and fun.
Try it. You'll either clear stuck energy or laugh yourself breathless. Either way, the heaviness lifts.
And if you find yourself spontaneously square-dancing at random moments afterward? Congratulations. You've been blessed by the Trickster. You're welcome.