The Easter Bunny

In ancient Saxon tradition, the rabbit was associated with Eostre, the Goddess of dawn, spring, and new beginnings.  Once a year, at the beginning of spring,  Eostre empowered the rabbit to lay Easter eggs, as a symbol of new life.  With the introduction of  Christianity, Easter eggs came to symbolize the resurrection, but they were still laid by a rabbit.  Today, the Easter Bunny, usually large and white, continues to bring Easter eggs and candy to children around the world on Easter Sunday.


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Chocolate Easter Bunnies are also popular at Easter.  But in Australia, where rabbits are an introduced pest, chocolate Bilbies are the latest Easter novelty.  The Bilby is a cute little marsupial native to Australia, with long ears, rather like rabbit ears (it is also called the rabbit-eared bandicoot).  It is an endangered species, and the Chocolate Bilbies are helping to fund conservation attempts to protect the Bilby from extinction.


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