I know y'all are equally interested in the arcane of the mundane....


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From: "Lorax Haven" 
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 23:35:50 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Fwd: [UUCA_PAGANS_Announce] Wheat weaver practices ancient
agrarian craft

Fun stuff.

Love, Josie/mom

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Wheat weaver practices ancient agrarian craft

Looking for all the world like a goddess of the harvest, Pam 
Castellani carries a bundle of wheat into her Sweet Valley craft 
shop.  Once inside, her fingers deftly twist and braid long durum 
straws and the wheat weaver chuckles about how this age-old craft 
occupies her hands.

Years ago, Castellani says, in what is now the United Kingdom, a lad 
who came courting might be given a similar bundle of straw. The 
girl's parents expected him to weave something intricate while he 
talked to their daughter so they'd know his hands had not had time to 
stray anywhere they wouldn't approve.

"Then, if the girl was interested in him, she'd wear what he made 
into the village and everyone would know she was his girl," she said.

Well-versed in the lore of her craft, which dates back at least 8,000 
years to Egyptian and other agrarian civilizations, Castellani talks 
about farmers who would save the last sheaf of one harvest and make 
a "corn dolly" (corn meaning any kind of kernel) to save through the 
winter. Come planting season, they'd return that little figure to the 
soil to ensure the next harvest would be bountiful. More:

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