Easter Traditions

With Easter approaching I was asked to write about the history and traditions of the day. It got me thinking about what I used to do for Easter. I remember a really awesome Easter egg hunt where my parents hid little clues around the house and each clue would lead to a different room before I finally found the egg in my bedroom.

I was researching and looked up the Black Rabbit, something mentioned a lot in my childhood. No references. I think the myth of the Black Rabbit was something that circulated around the two Mundesley schools. Here’s the story as I recall it…

In the toilets of Mundesley first school you will often see tiny foot prints. These are of the elusive Black Rabbit. Around Easter he would hang around the school, any unattended Easter eggs were rightfully his. This included the tiny eggs from the top of cakes to the egg you exchanged with your friends.

Everywhere you would see tiny foot prints and you knew you were being watched. No one would dare go to the toilet on their own for fear of seeing the Black Rabbit.

“That’s the Black Rabbit coming to take away your Easter eggs,” one girl would tell the other while pointing to the foot prints in the girl’s loo.

The story continued into Junior school but as we grew older the tale of the Black Rabbit seemed to fade. Easter was just a time for chocolate and presents. I wonder if the story of the Black Rabbit has continued or whether it was lost in the whirlwind of growing up.

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