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Skriven 2006-08-10 20:09:00 av Robert E Starr JR (6450.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: OT: Wicker Man remake
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On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:03:40 GMT, Amy Guskin <aisling@fjordstone.com>
wrote:

>>> On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:50:13 -0400, kruegerb76@hotmail.com wrote
>(in article <1155221413.647605.97260@q16g2000cwq.googlegroups.com>):
>
>> 
>> Amy Guskin wrote:
>>>>> Although, there is the John Barleycorn
>>>> angle to it (but the grain has already been fertilized), so I don't
>>>> see the requirement of virginity to be necessary. <<
>>> 
>>> John Barleycorn would only come into play if they were at the point of
>>> harvest.  Wasn't the John Barleycorn sacrificial aspect done in that old
>>> horror flick "Harvest Home"?  I haven't seen that one in decades, but I
have
>>> a vague recollection...
>> 
>> I just googled a short summary of the John Barleycorn myth.  It has to
>> be one of the strangest stories I've ever read.  LOL
>> 
>> "The story goes that three men swear that John Barleycorn must die.
>> They decide to take a plough and bury him alive. But the spring comes
>> and he rises through the soil. After a while he grows big and strong,
>> even growing a beard, so the three men cut him down at the knee, tie
>> him on to a cart, beat him, strip the flesh off his bones and grind him
>> between two stones. But at the end it is John Barleycorn who defeats
>> his opponents, proving the stronger man, by turning into beer."
>> 
>> 
>> I had to read that twice to make sure it really said "beer" and not "a
>> bear".      :o <<
>
>Yeah, that's the text practically straight out of the folk song - which I 
>sing every Lughnasadh at our group's ritual.  You do realize that they are 
>singing (talking) about _corn_, and not about some guy actually named "John 
>Barleycorn," right?  ;-)
>
>Here are the lyrics as Traffic performs the song:
>
That's really close, except for the last verse to Steeleye Span's
version.  Which I had figured they'd taken pretty-much without change
from the old ballad.

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