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| Mahayana |
she was dressed in appropriate clothing and treated in various ways as an embodiment of the harvest. some folk left her in the field some brought her to the harvest dance and set her up in the center some placed her on a funeral pyre heaped with flowers and set fire to it some drenched her with water as a fertility charm some married her to a corn-woman in a lock ceremony. some hung her up in the farmhouse, until next year's harvest. some preserved her until yule, when she was fed to the cattle, to make them thrive all year round |
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