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A Yummy Chocolate Rabbit76

The Origins of the Easter Rabbit

Like Christmas, Easter is a holiday that began as a Christian religious holiday and, over time evolved into a combination religious and secular holiday. Actually, many of the secular traditions associated...

2 comments    recreation christian christ
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Mabon, the Fall Equinox

The autumnal equinox marks the end of the harvest season and starts the Pagan calendar turning towards winter. Learn about the customs of Mabon, the Fall Equinox.

7 comments    holiday pagan fall
Wiccan Festival Wheel87

Earth Festivals and Ritual Calendars

Today we tend to look at time as linear. A year's time for us is comprised of 12 sequential months beginning with the month of January and ending with the month of December, in the same order, year after...

32 comments    religion death spirituality
Happy Easter:  What's With The Bunny?69

The Origins Of The Easter Bunny

Happy Easter to everyone, or Happy Passover, or Happy Sunday, whatever your particular leanings may be. For my family it is Happy Easter. Easter is a time when we think of going to Church and usually don't,...

4 comments    family easter fertility
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The Ley-Lines and Lost-Past of North Kent part 7

As revealed previously the landscape of Kent is divisible by the number seven- it's 1x7 miles from Canterbury to Whitstable, 2x7 miles from Canterbury to Folkestone, and 2x7 miles from Canterbury to Ramsgate...

6 comments    easter landscape gods
Tom Rubenoff profile image67

Santa Claus, The Easter Bunny and ET

The story goes that a certain Nicholas Klaus of Germany retired from his toy-making career to a reindeer farm in northern Lapland. He was attracted to Lapland by the local traditional dance called Lap dance....

5 comments    education fun politics
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April Fools Day

The origins of April Fools' Day or All Fools' Day appear to be lost in time. Humor is a part of life and most people enjoy a good laugh. Of course life has its serious side as well and if no one took life...

5 comments    entertainment halloween holidays
ApothecaryJeri profile image55

First Day of Spring! The “birth” of the new life force for this year.

Whatt a week!! WELCOME SPRING!!! Today’s the First Day of Spring….the Spring Equinox!! The “birth” of the new life force for this year. The dawn of this new Spring Season...

1 comment    entertainment advice vernal equinox
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