The Easter Bunny Is Not Pagan
March 21, 2025
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Is the Easter Bunny pagan? Probably not. It seems to have been invented by German-speaking Protestants sometime in the 1600s.
Bibliography:
Stephen Winick, "Ostara and the Hare: Not Ancient, but Not As Modern As Some Skeptics Think,"
Library of Congress Blogs, April 28, 2016.
Stephen Winick, On the Bunny Trail: In Search of the Easter Bunny, Library of Congress Blogs, March 22, 2016
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