corn spirit

In Uncategorized on 1 October 2005 with no comments

In agricultural Northern Europe, the Corn Spirit was believed to take the shape of an animal at harvest time in order to escape the reaper. With my camera we just had a pleasant conversaton.

Now, primitive man, to whom magical changes of shape seem perfectly credible, finds it most natural that the spirit of the corn, driven from his home in the ripe grain, should make his escape in the form of the animal which is seen to rush out of the last patch of corn as it falls under the scythe of the reaper.

- Sir James George Frazer
The Golden Bough : a study of magic and religion