...He was armed with a sheaf of short, broad-bladed stabbing spears, and was seated on a sort of throne entirely covered with an immense kaross of lions’ skin... 
Harry Collingwood 「The Adventures of Dick Maitland」
...Before me rose a huge sheaf of clamorous telegrams from our out-of-town customers and our agents; and soon my anteroom was crowded with my local following, sore and shorn...
Various 「Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905」
...I sat down on a sheaf of wheat and basked till dry in the warm sunshine...
Gordon Stables 「The Domestic Cat」
...Then she sat down on a sheaf of wheat and looked around her, wishingthat her father would come...
Lenore Elizabeth Mulets 「Stories of Birds」
...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」
...Hence in Swabiathe Harvest-May is fastened amongst the last stalks of corn leftstanding on the field; in other places it is planted on thecorn-field and the last sheaf cut is attached to its trunk...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...When the harvesters have nearly finished their task and only asmall corner of the field remains to be reaped, the owner takes ahandful of wheat tied up in a sheaf...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...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」
...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」
...In some parts ofWestphalia the last sheaf at the rye-harvest is made especiallyheavy by fastening stones in it...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...Often the last sheaf is called the Old Woman or the Old Man...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...In Silesia thelast sheaf is called the Old Woman or the Old Man and is the themeof many jests; it is made unusually large and is sometimes weightedwith a stone...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...The identification of the person withthe sheaf is made still clearer by the custom of wrapping up in thelast sheaf the person who cuts or binds it...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...Insome parts of Bohemia the Baba, made out of the last sheaf, has thefigure of a woman with a great straw hat...
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」
...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」
...” The male sheaf is wound about with thread so that noneof the leaves are visible, whereas the female sheaf has its leavesbent over and tied so as to resemble the roll of a woman’shair...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...Sometimes, for further distinction, a necklace of rice-strawis tied round the female sheaf...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
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