Eostre - The Film
Summary of Story (Written by Greg Casson-du Mont):
The Year is 640 AD and the Christianization of Anglo-Saxon England is well underway. Eorcenberht, King of Kent, has commanded that all pagan “idols” be destroyed and that Lent be observed.
During this time, a young and devout missionary named Edwin (20-30) is sent to a remote village where he aims to convert the still staunchly pagan populace to the new religion.
However, when he arrives, he discovers a near-deserted, hare infested settlement whose few residents seem to have gone utterly mad, behaving less and less like people and more and more like the rodents around them.
In truth, the village was once a thriving community devoted to the Saxon goddess of fertility, Ēastermōnaþ (Eostre).
However, when a previous missionary successfully converted the inhabitants to Christ, the ancient goddess became jealous and cursed the village, wasting their crops with famine whilst slowly transforming all that had renounced her into hares, doomed to be eventually eaten by the famished survivors…
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