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Paul Hentzner, a 16th Century German Traveller (born 1558) described a harvest celebration after travelling through England. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
"As we were returning to our inn, we happened to meet some country people celebrating their Harvest Home; their last load of corn they crown with flowers, having besides an image richly dressed, by which, perhaps, they would signify Ceres; this they keep moving about, while men and women, men and maid servants, riding through the streets in the cart, shout as loud as they can till they arrive at the barn." 
It was customary therefore throughout England for the last sheaf of grain to be used to make a corn dolly; they would transport it with great ceremony, music and shouting to the feast. People believed the corn-dolly or kirn-doll contained the spirit of a successful harvest so at the end of the festivities, they took the corn-doll to a farmhouse where it was stored or displayed until the next harvest supper. Sources 
Hentzner, Paul Travels in England 1598 
Kidd Judith, Rees Rosemary, Tudor Ruth "Life in Medieval Times" (Heinemann Educational Publishers (2000)) 
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