7 things you didn't know about Easter
Did you know that Easter isn't celebrated on the same day everywhere?
1. Easter in Ethiopia
Ethiopian Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter anywhere from a week to two weeks after the western Church.
2. The Easter Bunny
The Easter Bunny seems to tie into the old Anglo-Saxon festival of Eastre, the spring goddess, whose symbol was a rabbit, a symbol of fertility.
3. Fabergé eggs
Fabergé eggs came about from Tsar Alexander III looking for an Easter/anniversary gift for his wife. He got in touch with jeweler Peter Carl Fabergé, who made a white enameled gold egg that opened to reveal a golden yolk containing a small golden hen with ruby eyes.
4. New clothes
According to superstition wearing new clothes at Easter time means good luck for the remainder of the year.
5. Mini-Halloween
In Sweden and parts of Finland, a mini-Halloween takes place on either the Thursday or Saturday before Easter.
6. Easter Egg rolling
Easter Egg rolling is popular particularly in the UK and USA. In the UK egg rolling is generally done down a grassy slope, whereas in the USA the egg rolling in a race on flat grass where generally children roll their egg.
7. Egg dance
In Germany there is an Easter tradition called the egg dance. People put eggs on the floor and dance around them, trying not to break any.