In Devonshire and Cornwall, what items are traditionally made at harvest-time from the last sheaf of corn?
Corn dolly Corn dolly Corn dollies or corn mothers are a form of straw work made as part of harvest customs of Europe before mechanization. Before Christianisation, in traditional pagan European culture it was believed that the spirit of the corn (in modern American English, "corn" would be "grain") lived amongst the crop, and that the harvest made it effectively homeless. James Frazer devotes chapters in "The Golden Bough" to "Corn-Mother and Corn-Maiden in Northern Europe" (chs. 45–48) and adduces European folkloric examples collected in great abundance by the folklorist Wilhelm Mannhardt. Among the customs attached to the last sheaf of the
Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest is a 1995 American horror film, directed by James D. R. Hickox, and starring Daniel Cerny, Jim Metzler, Nancy Grahn, and Mari Morrow. It is the third film in the "Children of the Corn" series, and focuses on two mysterious brothers who are adopted from rural Nebraska and brought to Chicago; a chain of deadly occurrences surrounding the family follows, involving a cult in which the younger brother is a follower. "Children of the Corn III" marked the film debuts of Nicholas Brendon, Ivana Miličević and