Show HARE LONG SYMBOL OF THE eastertide various legends account for the con connection effion very few people are quite sure in their own minds as to what part the hare plays in eastertide several legendary stories connect the hare with ammo immortality reality one of these stories runs something like this they say that once on a time the boon wished lashed to sell send to mankind a message of immortality and the hare undertook to act as messenger so the moon charged him to go to men and say As aa I 1 die and rise to life again sop so diall liall you dlo die anil and rise alho to life again accordia Ac accordingly cordin gly the hare went to men but either out of forgetfulness forget falness or malice lie ho reversed tile the message and said As I 1 lie die and donot do not rise to life again so you sh shall all also die and not rise to life again then he be went back to the moon and she asked him what lie he had said lie ile told lier her and when she heard how he had given tile the wrong message site she was P Y ay 4 41 1 C rak U X tier her easter team so angry that she threw a stick at him film which split hla his up lip that Is why tile the hares lip Is cloven whether or not tills this or slin similar alar stories account for the candy rabbits of today it Is certain that many of the old symbols of tile the recognition of returning spring persisted in tho the jewish and christian celebrations of tho the passover and easter |