(March 30, 2022 at 5:15 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: It is. Or a devil, if you like. It's a holdover from germanic paganism - but then again, so is the name of the holiday. Grimm pegged it as the sacred animal of the spring goddess.
Broken clocks.
Grimm was probably mistaken. Hares and rabbits were associated with virginity and rebirth since before the Christian Era. There’s really no evidence that rabbits/hares were sacred to Eostre/Ostara.
Boru
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