'The Corn Spirit'

The Golden Bough by James G. Frazer: Chapter 3, Atis to Laerterces

Frazer, an aristocrat of the late agrarian world who was among the class of men to see reapers, threshers and binders of grains or wheat, barley, oats and rye, generally all called corn in ancient literature, triangulates the fertility worships of the ancients, the savage practices of primitives under the British, Spanish and French empires of the mid-1…