Easter Folklore: Spring Festivals and Forecasts
With the renewal of the natural world in spring comes the celebration of Easter, when many ancient traditions are still kept alive today.
A Forest of Folklore: The Easter Egg Tree
Eggs—long symbols of fertility, rebirth, and love—inundate just-budded trees throughout eastern Pennsylvania each spring. While most states celebrate Easter with rabbit figurines, church festivals, and large baskets filled with chocolate gifts, “Easter egg trees” sprout up in American regions
The Folklore of Eggs: Their Mystical, Powerful Symbolism
For millennia and across the world, the egg has been a powerful symbol, representing the earth, fertility and resurrection.