Many Easter day customs come from the old world. the name Easter come from Eostre an ancient Anglo Saxon goddess originally of the dawn. In pagan times an annual spring festival was held in her honor. Some Easter customs have come from this and other pre-Christian spring festivals. Others come from the Passover feast of the Jews, observed in memory of their deliverance from Egypt. but now Easter is all about egg hunts bunny rabbit ts chocolate playing with Friends.A month corresponding to April had been named "Eostremonat," or Eostre's month, leading to "Easter" becoming applied to the Christian holiday that usually took place within it. Prior to that, the holiday had been called Pasch Passover, which remains its name in most non-English languages.
Did you know that 9o million chocolate Easter bunny for Easter. each day 5 million marshmallows are produced in preparation for Easter and 16 billion jelly beans are made for Easter that’s enough to completely fill an 89 feet high and 60 feet wide plastic Easter egg about the height of a nine story office building
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