The origin of the Easter Bunny
Spring is finally here, which means that Easter is just around the corner…Do you know the origin of the spring bunny and where it came from?
As with so many of our ancient customs, the origins of the Easter reaches far back into the pagan past, they believed that the sun went to sleep during the winter, spring season was to welcome the sun back from its rest.
The Easter bunny began life as the Germanic and Saxon goddess of the dawn and the spring, Eostre, whose sacred animal was the hare.
The brown hare is native to England and experts believe that rabbits, native to Spain and France, were introduced into the wild in Britain by the Normans after 1066. These rabbits soon multiplied, vastly outnumbering the native hare. Their skill for reproducing, perhaps, made them a more suitable symbol for fertility and rebirth.
source:stneotsmuseum.org
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