Through centuries and across cultures, the holiday's iconic customs have been built upon with the help of storytelling. As for the cotton-tailed creature that leaves us chocolate and eggs? Well, here's a bit of that tale.
Employee Sandra Jaeckel adjusts a ribbon around the neck of a giant chocolate Easter bunny at the production facility of Confiserie Felicitas chocolates maker in Hornow, Germany, in 2014. Through centuries and across cultures, the holiday's iconic customs have been built upon with the help of storytelling. And the cotton-tailed creature that leaves us chocolate and eggs has a longer tale.The story of Easter is as much rooted in paganism as it is in Christianity.
A little girl found a bird that was close to death and prayed to Eostra for help. Eostra appeared, crossing a rainbow bridge — the snow melting before her feet. Seeing the bird was badly wounded, she turned it into a hare, and told the little girl that from now on, the hare would come back once a year bearing rainbow colored eggs.
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