some places, that when the sheaf is called the Mother, it must be made up into human
shape by the oldest married woman, but that when it is called the Maiden, it must be cut by the
youngest girl. Here the age of the personal representative of the corn-spirit corresponds with that of
the supposed age of the corn-spirit, just as the human victims offered by the Mexicans to promote the
growth of the maize varied with the age of the maize. For in the Mexican, as in the European, custom
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the human beings were probably representatives of the corn-spirit rather
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Again the same fertilising influence which the tree-spirit is supposed to exert over vegetation,
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and
cheap toms even women is ascribed to the corn-spirit. Thus, its supposed influence
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the practice of taking some of the grain of the last sheaf (in which the
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to be present), and
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