Where did the concept of Easter Bunny and Chocolate Easter eggs come from?

[koala610]

Where did the concept of Easter Bunny and Chocolate Easter eggs come from?

[Clanad]

Check here...

The Choclatizing of said bunny was merely a marketing ploy to sell more candy...

[burnhal]

Co-incidentally was watching Bill Oddie last night. It was apparently the Hare initially rather than the rabbit. As we know the hare uses a hollow called a form rather than a burrow. It is reckoned that people in the dim past walking across open ground would flush hares. Now lapwing nest on the same sort of ground and when the area where the hare was flushed from was reached, very often in the spring- easter time- eggs would be found on the ground- giving rise to the belief that the hare laid eggs at easter time. Now believe that if you will- but its a pretty good tale

[brionon]

Yeah,like our ancestors were as daft as the Greeks who thought that Swallows lived under water. {Sorry to Stephen Fry}

[mad4music]

Easter is actually a pagan festival around spring time and has got to do eith a greek, i think, god who was the god of something like birth and all things new something like that anyway and thats where the rabbit comes from, you know is being th most reproductive animal going, and the egg comes from well egg, birth, life etc it wasnt made to be a traditional 'christian' holiday until alot later similiar to christmas really.

[Avatar]

F**k knows but the b4stard things are in the p1ssing shops already!!