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As part of the legend, the creature carries colored eggs in its basket, as well as candy, and sometimes toys, to the homes of children. As such, the Easter Bunny again shows similarities to Santa (or the Christkind) and Christmas by bringing gifts to children on the night before a holiday.
The Easter Bunny may not be featured in the Good Book, but he does share a connection with Christ: eggs. Like rabbits, eggs represented new life and fertility in pagan times, which is probably how ...
The Easter Bunny reminds us of another magical gift-bearer; he's a bit like Santa Claus: a benevolent bearer of gifts for good children and a star of posed holiday pictures (sometimes including ...
The Easter Bunny has a more mysterious history than you might imagine, and religion has nothing to do with it. ... There’s no religious significance to a bunny being part of the Easter holiday ...
Easter Bunny (2 C, 8 P) L. Leprechauns (1 C, 1 P) P. ... Pages in category "Holiday characters" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total.
A response to a question about the origins of Easter hares in the 8 June 1889 issue of the journal American Notes and Queries stated: "In Germany and among the Pennsylvania Germans toy rabbits or hares made of canton flannel stuffed with cotton are given as gifts on Easter morning. The children are told that this Osh’ter has laid the Easter eggs.
The Easter bunny isn't the only holiday mascot around town! This more or less has to do with the Christian tradition of eating lamb to commemorate Christ's death and sacrifice all that time ago.
This Easter TV special was also Astaire's second time starring in a production about the holiday, following the 1948 MGM musical Easter Parade. This was the third and final Rankin/Bass special about Easter. The first two were Here Comes Peter Cottontail (1971), narrated by Danny Kaye, and The First Easter Rabbit (1976), narrated by Burl Ives.