Paranormal, Easter Bunny 🐰...Or is it?...

 

  

For many people Easter is a joyous occasion, family gatherings, a long weekend and for kids it also means a visit from the Easter bunny. But what if I hat sweet little rabbit is more then he seems?

For most people Easter is celebrated around the world as a religious holiday commemorating the resurrection  of Christ.

But for others especially children it's a time of excitement and anticipation as they await the arrival of the Easter bunny and a basket of goodies . Colorful eggs and chocolate delivered by a kind magical bunny.

 what's not to like about that!

All fun and games, right?

However, for years now there have been sightings of a "Easter Bunny"  that is a lot creepier then common depiction would suggest.

Many have claimed too see a large human or near human sized rabbit, sometimes with intimidating red eyes and sharp teeth not exactly the kind and cuddly bunny we often think of.

Now, many would argue that what is being seen is nothing more then a prankster in a costume or a young child's imagination going a bit overboard. However some of these sightings seem to exhibit supernatural qualities like the  human sized bunny appearing out of nowhere or having ghost like  abilities ranging from  being semi transparent or walking through walls sometimes even disappear at a moments notice.

If these sightings where only a few that would be one thing, but there have been similar accounts around the world. Some believe this is a coincidence or possibly even a form of mass hallucinations. Other believe it to be a type of tulpa.

A tulpa is a creature created by thought alone either by a intense   concentration by an individual or through mass beliefs by a large number of people. Basically if enough people believe in something it is essentially willed into existence ... Though they are hard to control and often dangerous as they will eventually take on a will of their own...

Others claimed this is nothing more then an  urban legend, in any case it's still interesting to think the simple fact that people believe is enough to make it a reality. 

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In America, the original Easter Bunny tradition we celebrate today can be traced back to German immigrants who  brought there Folklore and tradition with them, in pagan times the rabbit was a sign of spring and fertility along with the egg. During the christianization of Europe many pagan customs where incorporated to gain more followers. The original Easter Bunny was the Osterhase Easter Rabbit .

The Angelo Saxon Goddess of spring fertility was called Ostara or Eostre her symptoms were the egg and the hare representing fertility. The colored eggs and bunny are still used to this day in our Easter celebration.

And modern pagans still hold a festival for the Goddess Eostre during the spring equinox.

Anyway Hope you all have a good weekend and Happy Easter. 

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History of Easter and it's Pagan roots..

                                 

                                                    A odd time of the year for this post lol but here ya go......

 Ostara,  is the Goddess of spring time and  Fertility her symbolizes are egg's and Hares, representing birth fertility and new life.

 Ostara otherwise known as Ēostre, is the Germanic  goddess of spring and dawn and fertility. On the old Germanic calendar, the equivalent month to April was called “Ōstarmānod” – or Easter-month.

Ēostre is attested solely by Bede  in his 8th-century work The Reckoning of Time, where Bede states that during Ēosturmōnaþ (the equivalent of April), the pagan feasts in Ēostre's honor was heald, but that this tradition had died out by his time, replaced by the Christian Paschal Month  a celebration of the resurrection of Jesus.

 Historic linguists  have traced the name to a Proto-Indo-European goddess of the dawn   Ausṓs , likely the original  goddess the Germanic  Ēostre and Ostara are based on. Additionally, scholars have linked the goddess's name to a variety of Germanic personal names, a series of location names in England, and, discovered in 1958, over 150 inscriptions from the 2nd century CE referring to the matrona Austriahenae.

Theories connecting Ēostre with records of Germanic Easter customs  including hares and Egg's, have been proposed. Particularly prior to the discovery of the matronae Austriahenae and further developments in Indo European studies, there have been several debates  among some scholars about whether or not the goddess was an invention of Bede. Ēostre and Ostara are sometimes referenced in modern popular culture and are venerated in some forms of Germanic neopaganism

Did you know roughly 61 million eggs will be dyed  in the US each year, ? 

Did you ever wonder why the egg is symbol of Easter?or wonder why they are brightly colored? And where did this magic rabbit come from anyway?

Eggs are an ancient symbol of new life and springtime.

Eggs have become a sort of metaphor for Jesus rebirth, but originated as a Pagan symbol of spring and fertility.  Later incorporated into the christian church lake many other pagan traditions.

The early Zoroastrians used eggs as a symbol of the Vernal Equinox." FYI, Easter is celebrated on the first Sunday following the first Full Moon after the equinox. Of course, most of the people painting eggs this year don't identify themselves as Zoroastrians, the church has incorporated many old tridiagonal rituals and costumes to convert new followers (as apposed to  torture or burning them at the stake, that doesn't leave many new patrons..) 

 Easter eggs came to the United States with the German settlers in the early 18th century. They brought us a lot of the Christmas and Easter traditions we have today. They also brought us the easter bunny. 

The tradition of decorating Easter eggs isn't a modern development, people have been decorating them in central Europe since at least the 13th Century. That's where the tradition of ornately decorated eggs, à la Fabergé, came from.

So, in case you were wondering whether the Easter egg was invented for purely commercial purposes, the answer is no. It was hijacked for purely commercial purposes (I'm kidding, sort of). The week leading up to Easter does just happen to be the biggest week of the year in terms of egg sales. Though i'm guessing the Easter Bunny is behind that.