harvest home

harvest home
1. the bringing home of the harvest.
2. the time of harvesting or of gathering in the harvest.
3. an English festival celebrated at the close of the harvest.
4. a song sung as the harvest is brought home.
[1565-75]

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▪ English festival
also called  Ingathering  

      traditional English harvest festival, celebrated from antiquity and surviving to modern times in isolated regions. Participants celebrate the last day of harvest in late September by singing, shouting, and decorating the village with boughs. The cailleac, or last sheaf of corn (grain), which represents the spirit of the field, is made into a harvest doll and drenched with water as a rain charm. This sheaf is saved until spring planting.

      The ancient festival also included the symbolic murder of the grain spirit, as well as rites for expelling the devil.

      A similar festival was traditionally held in parts of Ireland, Scotland, and northern Europe.

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