When you were a child, what was your idea of what The Easter Bunny / Hare and the Tooth Fairy looked like?

There are far more important things to discuss, I know.

But since we are starting to see ‘Easter Bunnies” in public as Springtime approaches, I am wondering what people’s childhood concepts of The Easter Bunny / Hare and The Tooth Fairy were.

Of course, everyone has a mental image of Santa Claus, and there are dozens of movies and hundreds of books claiming information on how Santa makes all those deliveries in one night.

But the Easter Bunny is more of an enigma. Did you see the Easter Bunny as an actual rabbit or hare? Or was he more human-like, like someone in a rabbit suit (only real, not a costume), like an Easter Bunny in a shopping mall.

How did the Easter Bunny deliver so many Easter baskets? How could a mere rabbit do this? Several movies may have given a backstory that influenced you.

And what about the Tooth Fairy? Some children believe in the Tooth Fairy through age seven or thereabout. Some see the tooth fairy as a dainty Tinkerbell-like entity (or like Joy on the Bugaloos). But some movies have emphasized more comic descriptions, including big men. The tooth fairy is usually referred to as ‘she’—so what was your impression of what the Tooth Fairy was and what did she do with the teeth she was willing to actually pay a little cash for?

Although I believed in Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and Easter Bunny were far less credible and plausible to me.