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{{trope}}
[[File:Totoro white rabbit.jpg|frame|link=My Neighbor Totoro|Down the rabbit hole...]]
The characters are chasing an animal, for example a pet that recently started to behave unusually, or trying to hunt down a wild animal, and as they get preoccupied with the chase, suddenly they notice that they were led to a strange place that they would have little chance to find on their own.
The implication seems to be, that animals are inherently magical creatures, serving as the channels of [[The Powers That Be]], and subtly guiding humans.
It can be a form of [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane]], if anyone brings up the fact that it was an amazing coincidence, sceptical characters can still reasonably argue that it was indeed just the coincidence.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* In ''[[
* ''[[My Neighbor Totoro]]''
* In the ''[[Pokémon (
* In the anime version of ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'', Miaka follows a vision of [[The Four Gods|Suzaku]] that leads her to the book. (In the manga, she finds it by chance when chasing not a phoenix but an errant pencil.)
* In ''[[Miyuki
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* ''[[The Matrix]]'' referenced the trope, with this name.
* ''[[The Secret Garden]]'' had this with the children following a bird.
* In ''[[The Lion, the Witch
** A robin leads the children to the Beavers' dam, indirectly.
** It's inverted later when they are hunting for the White Stag, and it leads them back to the gate to the normal world.
* Happens several times in ''[[
* In ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'', Jack discovers Christmas Town by following Zero, the little ghost dog with a pumpkin nose.
== Literature ==
* ''[[
* ''[[Harry Potter (
** In ''[[Harry Potter and
** Also, "follow the spiders" from ''[[
** ''[[
* In "Fable of the Goat," a short story by Galician-Israeli author Shmuel Yosef Agnon, an Eastern European Jewish boy, curious as to how his often-wandering goat always returns with such sweet milk, follows it into a cave which magically leads to what is now Israel.
* W H Auden - ''The Quest'' - XV Lucky
{{quote|
''He would have only found where not to look;
''Suppose his terrier when he whistled had obeyed,
''It would not have unearthed the buried city;
''Suppose he had dismissed the careless maid,
''The cryptogram would not have fluttered from the book."'' }}
* In ''[[Muddle Earth]]'', the protagonist is transported to the magical world while chasing after his dog.
* In [[Peter S. Beagle]]'s ''Tamsin'', Jenny's cat leads her to the ghosts and kicks off the plot.
* In [[Devon Monk]]'s [[
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[
* In ''[[
* ''[[
* The opening act of ''[[Epic Mickey]]'' is this with Mickey pursuing his brother Oswald
* The adventure of Davy and his friends in [[Chameleon Twist]] begins like this.
* Happens literally in Sir Peter-arc of ''[[Rule of Rose]]'', where you must find and return the titular pet to the Aristocrat Club. {{spoiler|Poor creature won't survive the chapter, but his death parallels closely to another one that takes place much later in the storyline, with some unfunny irony.}}
** But not before he leads you to a series of jump-scares and an ambush.
* Some levels in ''[[
** Not to mention [[Super Mario 64]], where there are ''two'' instances where you must chase and catch a rabbit in order to obtain two of the power stars. The rabbit in question even mentions that ''[[Alice in Wonderland
** In the DS remake of 64, there are multiple rabbits running about the castle [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|colored like the character who must catch them]] who give out keys to the game room.
* The first part of the [[Trapped Series]] has this exact quote as its subtitle, and a rabbit statue is essential to solving a puzzle.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* [[Bird Boy]] [http://bird-boy.com/volume-1-page-11 Trying to spear the bird leads him into the woods]{{Dead link}}.
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