"Both Christians and Muslims in mainland Greece had a morbid fear of
rabbits, for example. On one occasion, according to the account of Edward
Blaqueiere, an English observer during the Greek War of Liberation, some
Greeks and Ottomans who were engaged in a firefight paused when a rabbit
happened to pass between them--and all turned their fire on the unfortunate
hare."
Andre Gerolymatos - The Balkan Wars (2002), p. 111