Funny Hare

There are two popular legends about how the Easter rabbit came to deliver colored eggs. According to one story, the goddess Eostre found a wounded bird in the snow. To help the little bird survive the winter, she transformed it into a rabbit, but the transformation was incomplete and the rabbit retained the ability to lay eggs. In thanks for its life being saved, the rabbit took the eggs and decorated them and left them as gifts for Eostre. This story was written in 1990 by Sarah Ban Breathnach in her book,