Comments on: Where Did The Easter Bunny Come From?

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:01:24 +0000

Where did the Easter bunny come from? The stork brought him!

By: Brady

Brady — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:37:26 +0000

I grew up in Bolivia. We were too poor to own a chicken, so we didn’t know what eggs where when I was I wee little vaquero. Me Madre did not want us to grow up with no good memories of the resurection of the Jesus man, so she did the best she could. She would spend 3 nights a year (one for each of us bebe’s) in the deepest part of the jungles. When she came home in the mornings, she looked like she had been ran over by a tremendous herd of burros. Years later when I was a grown man supporting myself and my wife at the age of 11, Me Madre finaly told me what she was doing in the deep dark jungles. She said “Pollo Loco”, thats what she call me. It means crazy chicken. Me Madre es Funny, huh? Anyway, she say “Pollo Loco, do you remember when you and your lil’ brother and lil’ sister would wake up on the morning of the Jesus man and you would have little woven baskets with the round tasty treats that tasted sweet and crunchy?” And I says “Yes, Madre. I remembers”. And she says “Well Pollo, I would go into the jungles to offer myself to the man of the mountain. And when he was done with using me up he would give me those pequito nuggets that tasted so sweet”. So that is how me and my brother and my seeester were taught the greatest tradition in our family. It’s all because f me Madre that we celebrate the arrival of the Easter El chupacabra! And if you are a good little vaquero, he will leave one of his sweet, tasty little Chupacabra poops in your basket! I love de Jesus man day! I love me Madre, too.

By: Ange

Ange — Mon, 11 May 2009 03:24:00 +0000

We should have had the Easter Echidna :: an egg laying mammal!

By: wpbrain

wpbrain — Fri, 08 May 2009 00:47:00 +0000

I grew up on a farm with chickens, so I knew where eggs came from: chicken butts. So when I was told the Easter Bunny laid eggs, I figured the eggs came from his butt. In anticipation of the holiday, I prepared for the holiday by making a nest for the Easter Bunny, sort of the way I would also hang a stocking for Santa. The nest would be a place where the Easter Bunny laid me some Easter eggs. But then, when the Easter Bunny left me such gifts as a BB gun and a box kite, I imagined him pooping me such toys from his butt. I felt sorry for him, imagine how much that must hurt.

By: Vince

Vince — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:31:00 +0000

Hey Matt, this is a great article. Easter is one of my favorite holidays. It’s another excuse to paint eggs, hide them, and dress up in a huge bunny suit which somehow earns you the adoration of young children. Thanks for demystifying the origin of the bunny. I made a list on my website of the top ten reasons I love about Easter: toptentopten.com/topten/reasons+i+love+easter. You can vote and also add your own reasons.

By: Kevin H

Kevin H — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:55:00 +0000

I read somewhere recently a tale about Eostre changing a wounded bird into a rabbit, but the transformation was incomplete and the bunny could still lay eggs. Anyone else heard of this?

By: Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:25:00 +0000

I forget the exact details but my Medieval European History professor, Clifford Backman, told us that in feudal Europe, the peasants had to pay tithes to their lords on holidays and since they didn’t have actual currency, they gave them what they had available to them during Easter, which were eggs and rabbits. If anyone’s interested it’s mentioned somewhere in his book, The Worlds of Medieval Europe

By: bob

bob — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:03:00 +0000

i was raised in a catholic household and was never fed any of this bull about the easter bunny being real like santa. the same goes for all of my classmates in catholic school as a kid. kids are more likely to believe that barney is real than the easter bunny.

By: Bri

Bri — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:32:00 +0000

I always figured the masculinity of the Easter Bunny was due to our societies inclination to make anyone/thing of importance male. Even something as feminine sounding as an egg-laying rabbit gets masculinized because we would never (god forbid) assume anything to be defaultly female!

By: Sarah in CA

Sarah in CA — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:22:00 +0000

PS – And you’d really be messing with kid’s minds since the Easter Bunny miraculously lays CHICKEN eggs, hahaha.