Eostre was the goddess of dawn, who had the ability to change into the woodland creatures. One day she saw a bird being hunted and its wing had been injured. She changed the bird into a rabbit but allowed it to continue to lay eggs. The bird/rabbit was able to get away. The hunter saw Eostre and didnt know she was a goddess. He fell in love with her and chased after her but she changed into a woodland creature and escaped. The hunter returned several times and saw her and chased after her, always with the same results. Each time when the hunter saw her, she was surrounded by woodland creatures, especially rabbits. So one day he devised a plan and chased after a rabbit and wounded it in its leg. The rabbit ran under a bush and the hunter followed. He knew the rabbit would have the answer to how to catch the goddess, but what he didnt know was that the rabbit was the goddess in disguise. She told the hunter that he must disguise himself as a woodland creature and look for her in the glade where he always saw her. The only animal that would cover the mans body was the skin of a bear, so he killed a bear and skinned it. Covering himself with the bear hide he went to the glade and found the goddess. He laid his head in her lap as she carressed his head. Suddenly the man felt his body change and become one with the bear skin. The goddess looked at the bear and spoke. "I have watched you hunt and kill many woodland creatures. The bird you injured upon the first time you saw me, was the last of its kind. For one year, the hunter shall become the hunted, and should you survive, I will marry you." A year passed and the hunter/bear returned to the glade. The goddess returned him to human form and married him. The bird which had been turned into a rabbit, flourished and is today the wren.