Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1896 — Easter Superstitions. [ARTICLE]

Easter Superstitions.

There are many superstitions connected with Easter Sunday which are -Significant of the season, and are almost as imperative as laws. One of these is the necessity of having something new to wear on this day in order to insure happin-ess for the coming year. Hence the Easter bonnet. Another one is that on that day the sun dances* This is an old legend, and the lines from Sir John Suckling are well known: “But oh, she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fair a sight.” It is also claimed in heathen countries, where the superstition originated, that the lambs frisk and dance in the light of the rising sun on Ostro, the name of a heathen divinity who was also represented as dancing and who gave to our Easter its name.