![]() ![]() Therefore, hollow shapes were fashioned from the last sheaf of wheat or other cereal crop. It was believed that the corn spirit lived amongst the crop, and the harvest made it effectively homeless. The wikipedia entry for corn dollies suggests that: ![]() The earliest reference to these figures dates from around 1598. He believes that kirn or kern babies or maidens was an older term for such straw figures. Roud suggests that the term 'corn dolly' was not coined until the 1940s 'by enthusiasts who developed straw work into a new and complex craft'. ![]() They were known by a variety of names including corn dollies, 'kirn-babies' (also spelt kern), ivy girls, mell dolls etc. Harvest trophies were symbolic or decorative figures which celebrated the harvest home, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, made from straw. ![]()
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