Easter brings together an unlikely cadre of traditions: church, bunnies and eggs. But what may seem like an odd trio is actually tied together by the universal themes of spring and life renewed.

The easter egg hunt also comes from pagan traditions, as the pagans used eggs in their celebration of Eástre, having to hunt for the eggs and use what they could find. Advertisement 3.

Sacred hares, banished winter witches and pagan worship – the roots of Easter Bunny traditions are ancient T he Easter Bunny is a much celebrated character in American Easter celebrations.

Easter bunny. One theory is the Easter bunny also comes from pagan rites of spring, brought to the U.S. by 18th-century German settlers in Pennsylvania.

The association of lamb with Easter is something we have borrowed from Jewish tradition and Passover – which was also the festival that Jesus and his disciples celebrated with their Last Supper.

Pagan Easter traditions. There is historical evidence of millennia-old spring celebrations centered around the equinox—early versions of May Day festivals. Because they occurred at the beginning ...

In reality, Christianity should be embarrassed that it has needed to embellish its Easter tradition by appropriating pagan symbols and rituals for its own use. The bunny isn't for Easter, ...

Sacred hares, banished winter witches and pagan worship – the roots of Easter Bunny traditions are ancient By Tok Thompson for The Conversation April 11, 2025 at 11:30 am EDT ...

Sacred hares, banished winter witches and pagan worship – the roots of Easter Bunny traditions are ancient By Tok Thompson for The Conversation April 11, 2025 at 11:30 am EDT ...

But it is in the folk traditions of England and Germany that the figure of the hare is specifically connected to Easter. Accounts from the 1600s in Germany describe children hunting for Easter ...

The Conversation explores the origins of the long and interesting journey the Easter Bunny has taken from European prehistory to today.