The Spanish word for Easter is Pascua. In Italian, it’s Pasqua. French speakers have Pâques. All of these words derive from pascha —both Latin and Greek for Passover, the Jewish festival during which ...

There are other European Easter traditions involving hares, including eating their meat and hunting them. One report from ...

Bottom line: There is not a definitive link in recorded history between the Easter Bunny and ancient paganism. Is it possible there ... just as there is a hare on the statue of [the Celtic goddess] ...

Newgrange was built by the god Dagda and named for the goddess Boann ... that St. Patrick went to Tara - the most powerful Celtic pagan site - in order to confront the religion of the Celtic ...

Fluffy, innocent, and hopping with joy, the bunny has become the cheerful face of the holiday. But behind the sugary smiles ...

This Celtic celebration of fire and fertility culminates in the marriage of the May Queen and the Green Man—and the arrival ...