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This is the agreeable potation, extolled by the Londoners, as the finest water in the universe — As to the intoxicating potion, sold for wine, it is a vile, unpalatable, and pernicious sophistication, balderdashed with cyder, corn-spirit, and the juice of sloes.
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Dr. Frazer conjectures that the Swedish Yule straw comes in part at least from the last sheaf at harvest, to which, as embodying the corn-spirit, a peculiar significance is attached.
Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles
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In the cave of Phigalia Demeter was, according to popular tradition, represented with the head and mane of a horse, possibly a relic of the time when a non-specialized corn-spirit bore this form.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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It is often made from the corn of the last sheaf of the harvest, and in it Dr. Frazer finds a clear expression of the idea of the corn-spirit as embodied in pig form.
Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles
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On the other hand it is just possible that they were originally a sacrament of the corn-spirit.
Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles
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The horse or mare is a common form of the corn-spirit in Europe.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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This introduces us to a new aspect of the corn-spirit, which we must now examine.
Chapter 48. The Corn-Spirit as an Animal. § 1. Animal Embodiments of the Corn-spirit 1922
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IN SOME of the examples which I have cited to establish the meaning of the term neck as applied to the last sheaf, the corn-spirit appears in animal form as a gander, a goat, a hare, a cat, and a fox.
Chapter 48. The Corn-Spirit as an Animal. § 1. Animal Embodiments of the Corn-spirit 1922
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This again shows that the corn-spirit is believed to live wherever the corn is still being threshed.
Chapter 48. The Corn-Spirit as an Animal. § 1. Animal Embodiments of the Corn-spirit 1922
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In one or other of these shapes the corn-spirit is often believed to be present in the corn, and to be caught or killed in the last sheaf.
Chapter 48. The Corn-Spirit as an Animal. § 1. Animal Embodiments of the Corn-spirit 1922
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