But Easter is ever so pagan. It's about eggs and pacing them down hills (Fr. Pâques = Easter) and that bit about Roman methods of capital punishment for religious agitators was just added on, as was the story of said agitator's birth added onto Yule. Religious stories and folklore have been intermingled since the Middle Ages. The overlay of consumerism began to be established only in the Victorian era when German royals started a destructive timber trade and somebody started fattening geese and then turkeys.