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Articles on rituals (not in any particular order - most recently discovered first)
Brown hares and chickens were treated as 'gods,' not food when they arrived in Britain - Phys.org (2020)
"Historical accounts have suggested chickens and hares were too special to be eaten and were instead associated with deities—chickens with an Iron Age god akin to Roman Mercury, and hares with an unknown female hare goddess."