What is the Easter bunny?Who started the Easter bunny?
As children begin to climb atop the Easter Bunny’s lap for photos, one has to ask how a rabbit became associated with the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Unfortunately, no one really has an answer to that question, merely theories. One theory dates the existence of the Easter Bunny to pre-Christian folklore, more associated with spring. The bunny has become intertwined with Christianity’s holiest day more by accident. Rabbits and hares were celebrated as fertility symbols and became more a symbol of spring’s celebration of new life. Christ’s resurrection is also celebrated as, “new life,” but with obvious deeper meaning. The rabbit egg is also listed in folklore as being a symbol of fertility, but the only problem with that being part of the theory is that rabbits don’t lay eggs. The first known portrait depicting a rabbit laying an egg emerged in the 1700s and it is speculated that “rabbit eggs” suddenly came about because Catholics were not allowed to eat chicken eggs during Lent. But
