However, this might be wishful thinking A Dictionary of English Folklore states there’s little evidence of any links between Ēostre and hares – and even if there were, these links would have been unlikely to have survived the subsequent centuries of invasion and Christianisation of Britain.ĭespite the ambiguity, it’s likely that hares originally had more to do with Easter than rabbits. Some people argue that the Easter bunny’s origins date back even further to the pagan festival Ēostre which used the hare as a symbol of renewed life. Over time the tradition grew and developed until it became the sugar-fuelled, garden-destroying day we all know now. If they had been good, they would be rewarded with a treat. This tradition stated that children would be judged every Eastertime by a hare. When German Lutherans arrived in America during the 17th and 18th centuries, they brought the tradition of the “Osterhase” with them. This creation is, unsurprisingly, thanks to America. Our modern bunny is a commercial creature with his soft floppy ears and non-threatening, chocolate-loving persona.
A commonly held belief is that as abundantly fertile animals, rabbits represent new life which ties in nicely with the religious message of Easter, but it’s really not as simple as that. The Easter bunny’s origins are a bit vague. But I’ve cunningly disguised that fact by pretending it’s all about the festive topic of the Easter bunny. Today’s post is basically just a way for me to prove my art teacher wrong by making my shoddy drawings the star of the show. I dropped art as soon as I could, but my teacher’s comments stayed with me and a couple of years later I applied to study medieval history at university, citing the moment I realised I had a “medieval” style of drawing as the moment I realised I was interested in medieval history. “You have a very medieval way of drawing people”, my teacher told me once. And worse still, everyone else’s attempts (which were also pinned up at the end of each lesson) were always so much better. But art? Each week I’d have to pin my feeble attempts at fruit bowls on my easel for all to see. I could play with enough enthusiasm during music lessons that my teachers didn’t mind that most of the notes were wrong. In French I could mumble my way through the verbs I’d spent my weekend not revising. Unfortunately for 15 year old me, all my friends wanted to do art and I wasn’t very good at the alternative option either (Design Technology – I think the exam had something to do with birdhouses, or ashtrays, or ashtrays for birdhouses?) so art it was.īig mistake. Do you know what’s one subject you don’t want to take at GCSE if you’re not very good at it?
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