Easter Weekend at Folktale Cider

 Easter Weekend at Folktale Cider!

We’re open Friday through Monday for a long weekend full of Easter fun! Hop on over for our Spring scavenger hunt and festive crafts, all included with our regular kids’ activities. ($5/child for access to the jumbo jumper and farm zipline.) No registration or reservations necessary. Simply come by when most convenient to you. Good Friday: 12pm - 8pm

Saturday: 12pm - 8pm

Sunday: 12pm - 8pm Easter Monday: 12pm - 4pm

As part of the celebration, we’ve been diving into the fascinating folklore behind the Easter Bunny.

One origin story traces the bunny back to Ostara (or Eostre), a mysterious Germanic goddess associated with spring and renewal. Though little written evidence exists (as is often the case with oral traditions), she is said to have had a special connection with a hare.

There are two popular versions of her tale:

1. Ostara found a bird whose wings had frozen and, to save it, transformed it into a hare—one that retained the ability to lay eggs.

2. A proud bird laid beautiful eggs that so irritated the goddess, she turned it into a hare—but later softened, allowing it to lay eggs just once a year.
   

The first written mention of the Easter Bunny dates to 1682, in Georg Franck von Franckenau’s De ovis paschalibus ("About Easter Eggs"). In this Latin text, he describes a German tradition in which children hunt for “hare’s eggs” (di hasen-eier), hidden in gardens by the Osterhase (Easter Hare), to the delight of adults watching nearby.

 Sources:Library of Congress Folklife Center

• "Ostara and the Hare"

• "Easter Bunny Origins"