Motif
protective binding of harvested grain
protective_binding_of_harvested_grain
A motif of the Sacred Time and Ritual Cycle family, within the sub-family Harvest Actions, Taboos, and Responses. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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comparative
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD. / FOOTNOTES; lines 12768-12923 confidence: medium
Cingalese Goigote custom: after threshing, grain is heaped, threshers tie stalks with ears of corn into a knot and bury it in the heap to prevent devils from diminishing the corn; the European 'key' is said probably to serve the same purpose.
The Goigote custom ties stalks into a knot and buries them in the grain heap to prevent devils from diminishing the crop; the passage also links this function to a European key custom.
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