Of how the Father of Heaven, the Easter bunny, Santa and the angels were living together in the sky! by Ana Beatriz Cerisara

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Celebrating Easter, Christmas and their associated alien fauna by Lauritsen, M, Allen, R, Alves, JM, Ameen, C, Fowler, T, Irving-Pease, EK, Larson, GJ, Murphy, LJ, Outram, AK, Pilgrim, E, Shaw, PA, Sykes, N

“…Equally obscure is our understanding of the animals that have come to be associated with these celebrations – notably the Christmas Turkey and the Easter ‘Bunny’ (brown hare and the European rabbit). …”

The child's pantheon: Children's hierarchical belief structure in real and non-real figures. by Rohan Kapitány, Nicole Nelson, Emily R R Burdett, Thalia R Goldstein

“…We anticipated that the categories would be endorsed in the following order: 'Real People' (a person known to the child, The Wiggles), 'Cultural Figures' (Santa Claus, The Easter Bunny, The Tooth Fairy), 'Ambiguous Figures' (Dinosaurs, Aliens), 'Mythical Figures' (unicorns, ghosts, dragons), and 'Fictional Figures' (Spongebob Squarepants, Princess Elsa, Peter Pan). …”
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