It was formerly a common belief that the sun danced on Easter Day. Sir Thomas Browne combats the notion in his Vulgar Errors.
“But oh, she dances such a way,
No sun upon an Easter day
Is half so fine a sight.”
Sir John Suckling.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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