corn-spirit

• “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.”

  The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

• “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

• “The horse or mare is a common form of the corn-spirit in Europe.”

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

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