By: Alba Carvajal
The Easter bunny is one of the symbols of Holy Week, especially in Anglo-Saxon countries, where it is very typical to give Easter eggs to children and friends on Easter Sunday.
It is even common to decorate and hide them. This game in which children have to find the eggs that the Easter bunny has been leaving is the fun for children on Easter Sunday. But why a rabbit? This is the story of the Easter bunny.
The origin of the Easter bunny goes back to the pre-Christian Anglo-Saxon festivals, when the rabbit was the symbol of fertility and was associated with the goddess Easter, to whom the month of April and the honor of the Easter festivals were dedicated. spring among the peoples of northern Europe.
Over time, the figure of the Easter bunny was included and adapted to Easter and, from the 19th century, chocolate and sugar dolls began to be made in Germany.
One of the favorite figures of pastry chefs to make chocolate figures was the Easter bunny, who was also the one who brought the colored and chocolate eggs on Easter Sunday or Resurrection Sunday, because the legend of the Easter bunny was was becoming more and more famous.
This curious legend tells that, when they put Jesus in the tomb that Joseph of Arimathea had given them, there was a rabbit hidden inside the cave, which, very scared, saw how all the people entered, cried and were sad because Jesus had died.
The rabbit stayed there looking at the body of Jesus when they put the stone that closed the entrance and he saw him and he saw him wondering who would be that Lord whom all the people loved so much. So he spent a long time looking at it; He spent the whole day and a whole night, when suddenly the bunny saw something surprising: Jesus got up and folded the sheets with which they had wrapped him.
An angel removed the stone that covered the entrance and Jesus came out of the cave more alive than ever! The rabbit understood that Jesus was the Son of God and decided that he had to tell the whole world and all the people who were crying, that they no longer had to be sad because Jesus had risen.
Since rabbits cannot speak, it occurred to him that if he brought them a painted egg, they would understand the message of life and joy, and so he did. Since then, legend has it that the rabbit goes out every Easter Sunday to leave colored eggs in all the houses to remind the world that Jesus was resurrected and to live happily.
