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The Easter Bunny Is Not Pagan | Religion For Breakfast
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quercus slrpnk.net quercus@slrpnk.net
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Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m2ZQaxfpnY

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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