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Corn dolly. Corn dollies or corn mothers are a form of straw work made as part of harvest customs of Europe before mechanisation. Scholars of the 18th and 19th centuries theorized that before Christianisation, in traditional pagan European culture it was believed that the spirit of the corn (in American English, "corn" would be "grain") lived ...
A kachina (/ kəˈtʃiːnə /; also katchina, katcina, or katsina; Hopi: katsina[kaˈtsʲina], plural katsinim[kaˈtsʲinim]) is a spirit being in the religious beliefs of the Pueblo people, Native American cultures located in the south-western part of the United States. In the Pueblo cultures, kachina rites are practiced by the Hopi, Hopi-Tewa ...
The making of corn husk dolls was adopted by early European settlers in the United States. [11] Early settlers also made rag dolls and carved wooden dolls, called Pennywoods . [ 12 ] La última muñeca , or "the last doll", is a tradition of the Quinceañera , the celebration of a girl's fifteenth birthday in parts of Latin America .
Many of these were introduced as teaching tools by evangelists, and were associated with certain festivals and holidays. These toys vary widely, including cup and ball, lotería, dolls, miniature people, animals and objects, tops and more—made of many materials, including wood, metal, cloth, corn husks, ceramic, and glass. These toys remained ...
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Hopi Kachina figure. Hopi katsina figures (Hopi language: tithu or katsintithu), also known as kachina dolls, are figures carved, typically from cottonwood root, by Hopi people to instruct young girls and new brides about katsinas or katsinam, the immortal beings that bring rain, control other aspects of the natural world and society, and act ...
Feldgeister ('field spirits'; singular: Feldgeist) or Korndämonen ('corn demons'; singular: Korndämon) are corn spirits in German folklore. Feldgeister are often also wind spirits, [1] causing lightning and rain. [2] Numerous Feldgeister are known in German folklore, some shaped as animals, some in human form.
In Imperial Rome, Cura Annonae ("care of Annona") was the import and distribution of grain to the residents of the cities of Rome and, after its foundation, Constantinople. The term was used in honour of the goddess Annona. The city of Rome imported all the grain consumed by its population, estimated to number 1,000,000 by the 2nd century AD.