When did the Easter Bunny and Easter Egg Hunting become a part of Easter?

"Easter" was stolen from Astaroth. Originally known as "Ashtar." This holiday coincides with the Vernal Equinox of spring when day and night are of equal length. Known as "Eastre" to the Anglo-Saxons. As the Goddess of fertility, she was associated with rabbits and eggs. The Christians stole this holiday and twisted its meaning. Other names include: Easter, Eastre, Eos, Eostre, Ester, Estrus, (Estrus is when an animal goes into heat; mating season) Oestrus, Oistros, and Ostara. Again, the "Lamb of God" was stolen from the Zodiac sign of Aries the Ram which occurs every spring.

Because the holiday has nothing to do with Jesus or some hidden anti christian agenda. And Wicca didn't exist till Gerald Gardner published his writings in the 1960s. I'm incredibly certain that the modern day practice of Easter is probably a mix of dozens of different traditions. But the original was certainly not Christian. The pagan "Easter" is called "Ostara" which is the spring equinox and the celebration of fertility in the earth. You can google it and find hundreds of pages on it. But from a pagan perspective, they are all symbols of fertility.

when the church was deciding when the holidays should be they took into account the practices of Wicca and figured that if their holidays were close to the wicca ones it would be easier for them to convert, soooo now we have practices that were carried over from wicca like spring being associated with birth- eggs, bunnies etc and we also have christmas trees that came from them too!