wheat-man

Updated: May 28, 2025

In some parts of Bavaria the man who gives the last stroke at threshing is said to have killed the Corn-man, the Oats-man, or the Wheat-man, according to the crop. In the Canton of Tillot, in Lorraine, at threshing the last corn the men keep time with their flails, calling out as they thresh, "We are killing the Old Woman! We are killing the Old Woman!"

Sir James George Frazer - The Golden Bough

An' I'm starvin' to death because I don't get what I used to eat.... Then this last blow Dorn! that fine young wheat-man, the best Aw! Lenore..." "But, dad, is isn't there any any hope?" Anderson was silent. "Dad," she had pleaded, "if he were really dead buried oh! wouldn't I feel it?" "You've overworked yourself. Now you've got to rest," her father had replied, huskily. "But, dad ..."

Zane Grey - The Desert of Wheat