Motif
Public shaming or taunting of laggard harvesters
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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. 2 of 2) The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 596-686 confidence: medium
At Obermedlingen, the man who gives the last stroke gets a straw figure called the Cow, has his face blackened, is tied with straw ropes to a wheelbarrow, and is wheeled around the village; Frazer notes anthropomorphic and theriomorphic confusion.
Some customs impose a cow figure on the last thresher or send a mare or effigy to a farmer who has not finished, with Shropshire described as taunting laggards.
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