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1
The corn of the
last
sheaf
is often used to make it.
2
The men thresh the
last
sheaf
till it is reduced to chopped straw.
3
Often the
last
sheaf
is called the Old Woman or the Old Man.
4
He shoved in a
last
sheaf
of hay then gave up.
5
We will give her a regal harvest-supper, and enthrone her on the
last
sheaf
.
6
At Dürrenbüchig and about Mosbach in Baden the
last
sheaf
is also called the Goat.
7
Again, the
last
sheaf
is itself called the Goat.
8
So they did again and again, until the
last
sheaf
had been trodden under foot.
9
Thus in Poland the
last
sheaf
is commonly called the Baba, that is, the Old Woman.
10
Sometimes the
last
sheaf
is called, not the Corn-mother, but the Harvest-mother or the Great Mother.
11
For amongst the neighbouring Esthonians, as we have seen, the
last
sheaf
is called the Rye-boar.
12
Orris Erwin, through though smaller and slighter physically, worked away until the
last
sheaf
was exhausted.
13
In some parts of Holstein the
last
sheaf
is dressed in woman's clothes and called the Corn-mother.
14
In some parts of Bohemia the
last
sheaf
is made up in human form and called the Buffalo-bull.
15
In the district of Traunstein, Upper Bavaria, they think that the Oats-goat is in the
last
sheaf
of oats.
16
In this way they think that the Corn-wolf, who was lurking in the
last
sheaf
,
has been certainly killed.
last
sheaf
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