Easter Bunny

The Easter Bunny is a site presented in Customs bunny who painted Easter eggs and hidden in the garden. The eggs are sought on the morning of Easter Sunday from the children.

The design of the Easter Bunny has spread in recent times in popular culture of Easter by the commercial use and former bearer of the Easter Egg widely displaced. In some parts of Switzerland was the cuckoo egg supplier in parts of Westphalia, it was the Easter fox, the stork brought in Thuringia and Bohemia in the cock eggs for Easter.

Origin

The Easter Bunny will for the first time by the medical professor Georg Franck of Franckenau in 1682 in the essay - mentioned " De ovis paschalibus of Easter Eyern ". He describes for Upper Germany, Palatinate, Alsace and adjacent areas and Westphalia the custom that the Easter bunny carrying eggs hidden in the grass and shrubs in gardens, where they sought for the pleasure and amusement of the adults from the children. The fact that the Easter Bunny hide the eggs, he calls " a fable that aufbindet to talk shop and children."

The connection of the Christian Easter with the egg as a symbol is known for various European countries at the latest from the Middle Ages, may be recognized earlier. There is next since Ambrose also an older interpretation of the Rabbit as symbol of resurrection. The versatile Christian bunnies symbolism found in the Middle Ages in many image works its expression, see Hare in art # Christian Art. The connection of the rabbit with the Easter eggs custom is still unclear, although the fertility of rabbits in itself has a close connection to the spring. The following hypotheses are often cited:

Believe in the Easter Bunny

Today it is widely considered harmless to teach younger children, the Easter bunny bring eggs and candy for Easter. In the opinion of psychologists that illusion brisk to the imagination, and support the cognitive development. However, critical questions and doubts of the children should be supported so that the faith by sharing with other children eventually disappears in the rabbit by itself.

Easter Bunny international

The Easter Bunny was also spread outside Europe by German -speaking emigrants.

Especially in the USA, he has gained a certain popularity. In English, it outweighs the name " Easter Bunny" against the literal translation " Easter Hare ", so that the figure is often seen as a rabbit. The modern expression of the Easter Bunny in 2011 in the movie Hop - Easter Bunny or Superstar? processed.

In Australia, an " Easter Bilby " is since the 1970s, the " Easter Bunny" set aside. This is the - pointed endangered species Greater bilby ( " Bilby " ) and are collected through the sale of Schokoladenbilbies funds for a preservation fund - not least due to the spread of the European rabbit.

Museum

In Munich there was at the Center for Exceptional museums, until its closure in 2005, a museum about the Easter Bunny.

Easter Bunny Post Office

In Germany there are, similar to Christmas, the Christmas post office, at Easter three places where letters are answered in the Easter Bunny, when they are sent on time to one of the following addresses: