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This article says Jacob Grimm wrote, "The Easter Hare is unintelligible to me, but probably the hare was the sacred animal of Ostara." But I can't find that quote in his works. 2601:408:8001:120:1CB5:7014:D9A4:377D (talk) 05:32, 21 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Good point! I did find the quote here, in Deutsche Mythologie, p. 141. But as far as I understand it has not been made by Jacob Grimm, but the author of that book/collection of lectures, Adolf Holtzmann. Daranios (talk) 07:08, 21 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have changed the association of the quote according to the source I have found, and added the indirect connection to Jacob Grimm which I have seen repeated using the original sources (thanks a lot to Google books and the Internet Archive :-). I hope that makes it clearer now. Daranios (talk) 19:44, 21 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, yeah just for the sake of completeness: I guess the original misassociation of the quote might have something to with the fact that, confusingly, both Grimm's and Holtzmann's works were named Deutsche Mythologie. (And also confusing to me was that Holtzmann's book was published only in 1874, while he already died in 1870. Must have been posthumously.) Daranios (talk) 14:23, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Easter not Eastern 2600:1700:B6C1:140:F72E:B450:5EAC:807A (talk) 09:40, 5 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

To help with this request: There is a typo under the section "Alleged association with Ēostre":

The connection between Eastern and that goddess had been made by Jacob Grimm in his 1835 Deutsche Mythologie.

should read

The connection between Easter and that goddess had been made by Jacob Grimm in his 1835 Deutsche Mythologie.

73.239.149.166 (talk) 11:16, 5 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot and good spot, I've fixed it now. Daranios (talk) 12:33, 5 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The article says: "the idea that a hare could reproduce without loss of virginity led to an association with the Virgin Mary, with hares sometimes occurring in illuminated manuscripts and Northern European paintings of the Virgin and Christ Child. It may also have been associated with the Holy Trinity, as in the three hares motif."

The only source cited is a blog called "the Three Hares project". Is there any truth in the above sentence? Can it be substatiated by other sources? Samton748 (talk) 12:34, 3 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I propose we delete this sentence until it can be substantiated Samton748 (talk) 12:35, 3 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Samton748: What do you think of the source I have found? It is only referring to iconography in church architecture, not "illuminated manuscripts and Northern European paintings of the Virgin and Christ Child", but does substantiate the connection to both the trinity and the Virgin Mary. Daranios (talk) 17:17, 3 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Chinese and asian folklore. The Jade rabbit lives on the moon with the goddess Chang'e. The Chinese landed a lunar rover named Jade Rabbit on the moon. Sudzydoogiedawg (talk) 11:48, 7 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

the actual wikipedia article is "Moon Rabbit". this so called "Moon Rabbit" is supposedly the rarest Easter bunny of all time if you find cards instead of eggs this means he came to visit

Sudzydoogiedawg (talk) 11:55, 7 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed two sentences talking about "eggs in antiquity". The first stated that eggs had religious significance in antiquity - perhaps, but nothing to do with this custom originating in the middle ages, 13 centuries later. The second was an unreferenced claim that early Christians venerated eggs because of the phoenix. Again, if true, no connection to our custom here. The first seems like parallelomania. We'd need to see some evidence that 13th century Germans borrowed an idea from antiquity, and there isn't any. Demonteddybear100 (talk) 13:56, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]