Motif
stranger as crop-spirit embodiment
stranger_as_crop_spirit_embodiment
A motif of the Sacred Time and Ritual Cycle family, within the sub-family Crop Spirits and Agricultural Fertility. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
comparative
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE. / CHAPTER III. KILLING THE GOD.; lines 8339-8394 confidence: high
“a passing stranger is regarded as a personification of the corn, in other words, as the corn-spirit”; a show is made of mowing, binding, and threshing him like corn.
The passage explicitly says a passing stranger may be regarded as the corn-spirit and treated like the corn.
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