Wishing all our Readers a Happy Easter.
Here is some Trivia on Easter.
The name Easter derived its name from the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eastre, which symbolizes hare and egg.
Easter always falls between March 22 and April 25.
Easter is however now celebrated (in the words of the Book of Common Prayer) on the first Sunday after the full moon, which happens on, or after March 21, the Spring Equinox.
Since time immemorial, egg has been considered as the symbol of rebirth.
The first Easter baskets were designed as such so as to give it an appearance of a bird's nests.
The custom of giving eggs at Easter time has been traced back from Egyptians, Gaul, Persians, Greeks and Romans, to whom the egg was a symbol of life.
During the medieval times, a festival of egg throwing was held in church, during which the priest would throw a hard-boiled egg to one of the choirboys. It would then be tossed from one choirboy to the next and whoever held the egg when the clock struck 12 was surely the winner and will retained the egg.
Americans however celebrated Easter with a large Easter egg hunt on the White House Lawn.
The maiden chocolate egg recipes were made in Europe in the nineteenth century.
Each year nearly 90 million chocolate bunnies are made.
When it comes to eating of chocolate bunnies, the ears are preferred to be eaten first by as many as 76% of people.
Kids' favorite Easter foodstuff comprises of the Red jellybeans.
The date of Passover is variable as it is dependent on the phases of the moon, and thus Easter is a movable feast.