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270 The Golden Bough (Third Edition, Vol. 7 of 12)[229]Pretence made bythe reapers ofkilling some onewith their scythes.make the crops to grow and thrive. 692 However, this explanationof the Mexican ceremonies at hoeing, ploughing, and reaping ispurely conjectural. In these ceremonies there is no evidence that,as in the parallel European customs, the farmer is identified withthe corn-spirit, since he is not wrapt up in the sheaves.Be that as it may, the evidence adduced above suffices toprove that, like the ancient Lityerses, modern European reapershave been wont to lay hold of a passing stranger and tie him upin a sheaf. It is not to be expected that they should complete theparallel by cutting off his head; but if they do not take such astrong step, their language and gestures are at least indicative ofa desire to do so. For instance, in Mecklenburg on the first day ofreaping, if the master or mistress or a stranger enters the field, ormerely passes by it, all the mowers face towards him and sharpentheir scythes, clashing their whet-stones against them in unison,as if they were making ready to mow. Then the woman who leadsthe mowers steps up to him and ties a band round his left arm. Hemust ransom himself by payment of a forfeit. 693 Near Ratzeburg,when the master or other person of mark enters the field or passesby it, all the harvesters stop work and march towards him in abody, the men with their scythes in front. On meeting him theyform up in line, men and women. The men stick the poles oftheir scythes in the ground, as they do in whetting them; thenthey take off their caps and hang them on the scythes, whiletheir leader stands forward and makes a speech. When he hasdone, they all whet their scythes in measured time very loudly,after which they put on their caps. Two of the women bindersthen come forward; one of them ties the master or stranger (as692 A. C. Kruijt, “Een en ander aangaande het geestelijk en maatschappelijkleven van den Poso-Alfoer,” Mededeelingen van wege het NederlandscheZendelinggenootschap, xxxix. (1895) p. 137. As to influence which the spiritsof the dead are thought to exercise on the growth of the crops, see above, pp.103 sq., and below, vol. ii. pp. 109 sqq.693 W. Mannhardt, Mythologische Forschungen, p. 39.
§ 2. Killing the Corn-spirit. 271the case may be) with corn-ears or with a silken band; the otherdelivers a rhyming address. The following are specimens of thespeeches made by the reaper on these occasions. In some parts ofPomerania every passer-by is stopped, his way being barred witha corn-rope. The reapers form a circle round him and sharpentheir scythes, while their leader says:—“The men are ready,The scythes are bent,The corn is great and small,The gentleman must be mowed.”Then the process of whetting the scythes is repeated. 694 AtRamin, in the district of Stettin, the stranger, standing encircledby the reapers, is thus addressed:—[230]“We'll stroke the gentlemanWith our naked sword,Wherewith we shear meadows and fields.We shear princes and lords.Labourers are often athirst;If the gentleman will stand beer and brandyThe joke will soon be over.But, if our prayer he does not like,The sword has a right to strike.” 695694 W. Mannhardt, Mythologische Forschungen, pp. 39 sq.695 Ibid. p. 40. For the speeches made by the woman who binds the strangeror the master, see ibid. p. 41; C. Lemke, Volksthümliches in Ostpreussen(Mohrungen, 1884-1887), i. 23 sq.
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