According to today's missive from the Writer's Almanac, the word "Easter" comes from an ancient pagan goddess worshipped by Anglo Saxons named Eostre. According to legend, Eostre once saved a bird whose wings had frozen during the winter by turning it into a hare. Because it had once been a bird, it could still lay eggs, and that hare became a cute rabbit, our Easter Bunny. For its part, Wikipedia call this interpretation "fakelore."
I know about the paschal lamb, but whence cometh the Easter ham, adored around the world?
Posted by Ronald Holden at April 16, 2006 12:19 PM
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