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Updated: May 9, 2025
Lastly, its influence on women is indicated by the custom of delivering the Mother-sheaf, made into the likeness of a pregnant woman, to the farmer's wife; by the belief that the woman who binds the last sheaf will have a child next year; perhaps, too, by the idea that the person who gets it will soon be married.
In the Breton custom the mother-sheaf a large figure made out of the last sheaf with a small corn-doll inside of it clearly represents both the Corn-mother and the Corn-daughter, the latter still unborn.
In Upper Brittany the last sheaf is always made into human shape; but if the farmer is a married man, it is made double and consists of a little corn-puppet placed inside of a large one. This is called the Mother-sheaf. It is delivered to the farmer's wife, who unties it and gives drink-money in return.
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