Tag: Jacob Grimm
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Oh, My Stars! There’s No Ostara?
There are no bunnies, colored eggs, or jelly beans in the Biblical version of Easter—so notes Karen Cyson, writing for the St. Cloud (Minnesota) Times. And while you will find those trappings in the neo-Celtic celebration of Ostara, there is no mythological basis for them, other than as generic symbols of fertility. Nor is there…