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This article was originally published on www.mentalfloss.com as The Surprisingly Controversial Origins of the Easter Bunny.

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The Christian holiday of Easter is built on top of a pagan festival celebrating the spring equinox, with the symbols of the ...

As for rabbits, the timing of their association with Easter also eliminates the possibility that they are a holdover from pagan ideas. During the Middle Ages, rabbits were seen as innocent, good, and ...

There are some people who suggest that Easter began as a pagan holiday that occurs on the first full moon after the spring equinox. There is both biblical and extra-biblical ...