Where do we get the custom of staged egg hunts?

Blakey1990

From the Romans and their rituals of their easteresque holliday. It celebrates the procretion of humans using the example of bunnies, who, as commonly known, get it on all the time Apr 12 06, 11:46 PM

Emanie

Eastre was the goddess of the dawn from germany. Eggs are a symbol of fertility and a renewal of life. Eggs were coloured and eaten as part of the spring festival. The custom of eating eggs on Easter sunday and of making gifts of Easter Eggs probably derives from the Easter payment of eggs by the villien to his overlord and so is very very old indeed. Apr 13 06, 1:44 AM

Baloo55th

Also, eggs would more readily available again as the hens would be getting better fed as the weather improved. Apr 13 06, 7:52 AM

Brainyblonde

The Easter Egg predates the Christian holiday of Easter. The custom may have its origin in paganism, for a great many pagan customs, celebrating the return of spring, gravitated to Easter. The exchange of eggs in the springtime is a custom that was centuries old when Easter was first celebrated by Christians. Given as gifts by the ancient Greeks, Persians, and Chinese at their spring festivals, the egg also appears in pagan mythology, where we read of the Sun-Bird being hatched from the World Egg. In some pagan customs, the Heaven and Earth were thought to have been formed from two halves of an egg. From the earliest times, the egg was a symbol of rebirth in most cultures, an emblem of the germinating life of early spring. Eggs were often wrapped in gold leaf or, if you were a peasant, colored brightly by boiling them with the leaves or petals of certain flowers. During the 4th century consuming eggs during Lent became taboo. However, spring is the peak egg-laying time for hens, so people began to cook eggs in their shells to preserve them. Eventually people began decorating and hiding them for children to find during Easter, which gave birth to the Easter Egg Hunt. Other egg-related games also evolved like egg tossing and egg rolling. http://www.twilightbridge.com/hobbies/festivals/easter/egg.htm Apr 13 06, 8:11 AM