... Each day was bringing a fresh sheaf of bad news... 
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
...I have known gray squirrels to go many hundredyards in winter across fields to a barn that containedgrain in the sheaf...
John Burroughs 「Ways of Nature」
...In the Hanoverian districtof Hadeln the reapers stand round the last sheaf and beat it withsticks in order to drive the Corn-mother out of it...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...In the districtof Bruck in Styria the last sheaf, called the Corn-mother, is madeup into the shape of a woman by the oldest married woman in thevillage, of an age from fifty to fifty-five years...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...Amongst the Slavs also the last sheaf is known as the Rye-mother,the Wheat-mother, the Oats-mother, the Barley-mother, and so on,according to the crop...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...In UpperBrittany the last sheaf is always made into human shape; but if thefarmer is a married man, it is made double and consists of a littlecorn-puppet placed inside of a large one...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...Sometimes again the last sheaf is called the Grandmother, and isadorned with flowers, ribbons, and a woman’s apron...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...In theneighbourhood of Belfast the last sheaf sometimes goes by the nameof the Granny...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...” The woman who binds the last sheaf issometimes herself called the Old Woman, and it is said that shewill be married in the next year...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...Thusin some villages of West Prussia the Old Woman is made twice aslong and thick as a common sheaf, and a stone is fastened in themiddle of it...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...” The sheaf itself is also called the Baba, and issometimes composed of twelve smaller sheaves lashed together...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...Sometimes the harvesters call out to the woman who binds thelast sheaf, “She has the Baba,” or “She is theBaba...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...In Lithuania the name for the last sheaf is Boba (Old Woman),answering to the Polish name Baba...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...In Russia also the last sheaf is often shaped and dressed as awoman, and carried with dance and song to the farmhouse...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...The name Queen, as applied to the last sheaf, hasits analogies in Central and Northern Europe...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...Thus in the Commune of Saligné (Vendée), thefarmer’s wife, along with the last sheaf, is tied up in asheet, placed on a litter, and carried to the threshing machine,under which she is shoved...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...” In the north-east of Aberdeenshire the last sheaf iscommonly called the clyack sheaf...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...Elsewhere the sheaf was dividedbetween all the cows and their calves or between all the horses andthe cattle of the farm...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
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