It is pretended that it is a heathen institution, or copied from a heathen institution; which reflection is derived from the circumstance of there having been a goddess called by different writers Aoster, Eoster, Eostre, Oster, or Easter, whose feast was celebrated in the month of April, which was thence called Easter Month.
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Charlemagne called April the Easter month, because it is the month in which Easter usually falls.
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April, the "Easter month" of the Saxon, the season of renewed life in the outside world, is, by some nations, reckoned as the beginning of the new year.
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When the month that we call Eastermonth is over, then the night lasts ten hours and the day fourteen hours.
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