scary, stories, shortstory. The myth of Ostara, then, has become a popular theory for the derivation of the Easter Bunny – although it is a contested one. 20. The journey from “hare” to “rabbit” to “bunny” is one of escalating tameness and divorce from the rural, folklore-based roots of the holiday. . #creepypasta "Good idea, child. One Easter I remember waking up and seeing the Easter bunny (one of those … Rabbits are slower and more compact, with smaller ears. • Q&A: A provocative new theory of Easter, • 2013 | Ideas: Reza Aslan on Jesus as zealot, • James Carroll: The wicked irony of Holy Week, • Brandon Ambrosino: Jesus’ radical politics, Yet the Easter bunny’s cuteness — in fact, the very name “Easter bunny” — wasn’t always a part of, In the US context, “Easter rabbit” took off first, seen earliest in the 1877 Belmont Chronicle quote. Lucas Pezeta. We prefer to think of the Easter bunny as being cute, and that’s why the creatures in these photos are so disturbing and uncanny: They’re half tiny cute animal, half dirty weird adult human. to ‘bunny’ is attributed the laying of the many beautiful eggs which fill the nests that good little boys and girls are apt to find on Easter morning.” “Easter bunny” first appears at most 10 years later, in the Missouri Marble Hill Press: “That Easter bunny was indeed kind.” Yet by the mid-1940s, as Google Books search results show, “Easter bunny” was far more common in America than either “Easter rabbit” or “Easter hare.”. With the move from Easter rabbit to Easter bunny, however, the animal species doesn’t shift, although the connotations do. They are more social than hares and make good companions for children. “Bunny” — from “bun,” a British dialect word for rabbit or squirrel, according to the OED — is a pet name for rabbit (also for women and children: see Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue, a popular 1910s kids’ book series). “Now all are eager to join in the celebration.”. A “Playboy Rabbit” wouldn’t, somehow, have the same transgressive allure; there were mid-century dance crazes with “rabbit” in the name, but none as popular as the “Bunny Hop.” A “bunny-boiler,” after Glenn Close’s famous cooking scene in “Fatal Attraction,” might not sound quite so evil if she were dispatching a hare or a rabbit. List of Easter Bunny Stories. “Bunny” began showing up only a few years later, in an 1883 article in the Lancaster, Pa., Daily Intelligencer: “. “Welcome to the family.” 23. 19. The name “Easter bunny” was quickly associated with another aspect of the holiday that also became dominant around this time: rampant commercialization. I looked in the corner of my room only to see someone, who I assumed later was one of my parents, dressed in a cheap and dirty looking Easter bunny costume. Wanamaker’s, the dry-goods store that took both Christmas and Easter to a newly bombastic scale of display theatrics, ran an ad in April 1905 in The New York Times under the rubric, “At the Sign of the Easter Bunny,” offering “China Baby with egg” (15 to 35 cents each); “Rabbits in cabbage” (25 cents each); and “Japanese Chickens and Rabbits in carts, boats, automobiles and baskets” (10 and 15 cents each). The Easter hare and the Easter rabbit are two distinct, although related, animals. A “creepy Easter hare,” after all, would be quite a different animal. People around the world had been painting eggs at Easter for centuries — if you give up eggs for Lent, what are you going to do with them but boil them and use them for decorations? It really fucking freaked us out. "The Easter Bunny gives out candy, he doesn't eat it...", The woman lightly shook her covers and continued to speak, halfway into her pillow and halfway to her daughter, "Go back to sleep, baby...". Either way, it seems that the association between the Easter Bunny and Ostara began with the 8th-century scholar the Venerable Bede in his work The Reckoning of Time. Lucas Pezeta . "Mommy said I should go back to bed." Hare, rabbit, and bunny aren’t, of course, synonymous. The Easter Bunny smiled. Turn around and don't look back." We later asked our parents if they ever dressed up as the Easter bunny and they told us that they Never even bought a costume. Yet the Easter bunny’s cuteness — in fact, the very name “Easter bunny” — wasn’t always a part of the spring holiday. The man in the bunny costume. "Mom, the Easter Bunny is eating my candy," she said. Go back to sleep," she said in her kindest voice. #shortstories But sometimes those stories are quite disturbing. The Easter Bunny doesn't eat candy, he hands it out to little children. Naturally since my younger sister and I were children, we believed in the Easter bunny. "Good idea, child. He flicked a shiny metal pendant at the child. 22. “Bunny,” and all of the fluffy, innocent, candy-pink associations it picked up in the 19th century, became an excellent target for some creative deconstructions in the 20th century. He banned the celebration of Easter and outlawed the sale of Easter eggs. She now spoke in a more serious tone, almost as if she were going to cry. "Okay, mom," the child sighed as she turned to walk out of the room. An 1897 poem in the Kansas City Journal made manifest the link between the great white bunny in the stores and the emptying out of one’s wallet: “Already do the windows show/ The joyous Easter bunny/ And Maud on bonnets new doth blow/ Great wads of Easter money.”. The bunnies — or rather, grown men in stained plush bunny suits — gaze blankly out of their huge pink eyes and bare their incisors, as small children wail in fear. I woke up around 4:00 and automatically noticed a strange smell, a smell of wet hay. "Baby, I just told you. She then sighed. — and 19th-century German immigrants imported their “Easter Hare,” or “Osterhase,” which among the Pennsylvania Dutch was called “Oschter Haws.” In a March 1877 article in the Ohio Belmont Chronicle, a correspondent laments that Easter, while “so popular in Europe,” is “but little celebrated in America.” He goes on to explain some of its customs: the egg hunt and the “White Rabbit” or “Easter rabbit,” a Santa Clause-esque figure from German mythology who gives out eggs to good children on Easter morning. If you search for “creepy Easter bunny” on the blogging site Tumblr, you will find a horrifying stream of leering, demonic, and potentially actionable giant rabbits.

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