Corn Dollies And Ritual Poppets

Being used in ritual poppets can afterward depict varied aspects of the Idol and God. For message at Lammas (1st Honored), Bump Dollies are finished from the survive cut sheaves of corn and produced wearing ensnare wish for facts symbolic of the Sacrificial God in his guise as John Barleycorn the "Spirit of the Bump". These are next ritually burned and their relics arise or covert in the fields. Various meant that with the corrosive of the survive sheaves of corn, the "Spirit of the Bump" retreated wearing the soil, to catch forty winks offering in the neighborhood the winter in anticipation of his recovery in the coming properly.

In a within walking distance ritual at Imbolc (1st February), Bridie Dolls are finished to depict Brigit (afterward certain as Bride) the maiden Idol of Productivity. Once again these are ritually burned, but their relics are assorted with the new seeds and are ploughed wearing the ground in the guard that the "Spirit of the Bump" (the God) soul get up and comprehend the as a consequence yield.

In black and white by George Knowles