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Today in Australia, you can find plenty of chocolate Bilbies on store shelves, in addition to confectionary Easter bunnies.
Like bunnies, chickens are also a symbol of fertility, renewal, and the changing of the seasons. Interestingly, Norway has two non-animal traditions that are popular for the holiday: skiing and reading true crime novels. As the tradition goes, Finnish children, especially girls, dress up in colorful old clothes and paint freckles on their faces. They then go from door-to-door, driving away evil spirits in return for treats. Despite all these many variations on the holiday however, the Easter Bunny remains popular in the U.
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This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano. After all, paying a visit to the Easter Bunny is one of many Easter traditions that families participate in every year. Why not figure out why you do it in the first place? One theory of the Easter Bunny's origins is that it stemmed from early pagan celebrations around the vernal equinox, says Time.
Pagans celebrated the springtime renewal of life as well as the goddess of dawn and fertility, Eostre, who was often represented by the hare or an egg. As Christianity spread throughout Europe, the celebrations around the vernal equinox may have merged with the observance of Christ's resurrection, since they both occurred around the same time.
Missionaries were said to blend pagan traditions with Christian holidays to make the transition smoother, so it is possible that the celebrations of Eostre and the resurrection of Christ became one. The earliest evidence of a more modern Easter Bunny dates back to the s, when it's first mentioned in German writings, reports Mental Floss.
This rabbit, called "Oschter Haws" or Easter hare, was believed to lay a nest of colorful eggs for children who were good. While there is no actual bunny that once was the iconic hare, the legendary egg-laying rabbit is said to have been brought to America by German immigrants in the s, according to History.
As mentioned, children would make nests for Oschter Haws to leave behind eggs. The tradition spread throughout the U. Chocolate bunny figurines also originated in Germany, where they began making pastries for the fabled rabbit in the s.
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