Easter Bunny Shocker!
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Academics have scoured medieval history and found the story is based on a lie.
They blame a meddling medieval monk for mucking up pagan history.
The mischievous monk literally made up a Saxon goddess who many today erroneously believe is the basis of the Easter bunny story.
University of Tasmania academic Elizabeth Freeman said German academics had searched extensively for clues to Easter tradition.
"They found it's all wrong," Dr Freeman, an expert on medieval history, said.
The commonly believed story about the Easter bunny, as the magical companion of the Saxon goddess Ostara, is repeated in books, poems and extensively on websites.
That fallacious story says the Easter bunny's roots are buried in the mythology of Germanic Saxon tribes.