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British Popular Customs, Present and Past

Note 30 — March 22.] EASTER DAY.

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Eostre is perhaps a corruption of Astarte, the name under which the Assyrians, Babylonians, Phœnicians, and the most ancient nations of the east worshipped the moon, in like manner as they adored the sun, under the name of Baal.

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