From Eosturmonath the English and German languages took the name of the Christian feast of the Resurrection, Easter (German Ostern), even though most European languages instead call it by a form of Pascha. This linguistic accident has fed a popular belief that Easter's eggs and hares descend from Eostre's pagan rites, but there is no ancient evidence for such a link.
The Easter hare first appears in German sources in the late seventeenth century (Georg Franck von Franckenau, 1682) as a folk-custom of no attested pagan pedigree, and decorated eggs have their own independent springtime and Christian associations; the confident claim that a hare was Eostre's sacred animal is a modern embellishment. In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, adherents of modern Heathenry and the reconstructed English tradition known as Fyrnsidu have chosen to honour Eostre in spring, understanding this, at their most careful, as a contemporary revival built upon a single ancient sentence rather than an unbroken inheritance.