answers: among German Lutherans
context: Easter Bunny The Easter Bunny (also called the Easter Rabbit or Easter Hare) is a folkloric figure and symbol of Easter, depicted as a rabbit bringing Easter eggs. Originating among German Lutherans, the "Easter Hare" originally played the role of a judge, evaluating whether children were good or disobedient in behavior at the start of the season of Eastertide. The Easter Bunny is sometimes depicted with clothes. In legend, the creature carries colored eggs in his basket, candy, and sometimes also toys to the homes of children, and as such shows similarities to Santa Claus or the Christkind, as they </s> manuscripts and Northern European paintings of the Virgin and Christ Child. It may also have been associated with the Holy Trinity, as in the three hares motif. Eggs, like rabbits and hares, are fertility symbols of antiquity. Since birds lay eggs and rabbits and hares give birth to large litters in the early spring, these became symbols of the rising fertility of the earth at the Vernal Equinox. Rabbits and hares are both prolific breeders. Female hares can conceive a second litter of offspring while still pregnant with the first. This phenomenon is known as superfetation. Lagomorphs mature sexually at </s> of this enchantress is sometimes given as 'Tehi Tegi', due to the obvious similarity of the tale in Sophia Morrison's "Manx Fairy Tales", although no direct reference is made there, or earlier, linking that named figure to the tradition. Other folklore accounts of the origins of the custom suggest that the wren is the assumed form taken by a sea spirit which formerly attacked the herring fleet, or that the wren inadvertently awoke the slumbering enemy when pecking at some crumbs on a drum. The practice of Hunt the Wren was first noted in the 1720s, when it was remarked
question: where did tradition of easter bunny come from