The Corn Spirit

The Corn Spirit is supposed to take the form of a cat, and in some places in Germany children have been warned not to go into the corn-fields because The cat sits there. In Silesia the reaper who cuts the last corn is called the Tom-cat and is dressed up in rye-stalks, wearing a long plaited tail. Rye stalks, corn husks, hay absolute, tilled soil, and German chamomile.