Vetula
"In East Prussia, at the rye or wheat harvest, the reapers call out to the woman who binds the last sheaf, “You are getting the Old Grandmother....In Scotland, when the last corn was cut after Hallowmas, the female figure made out of it was sometimes called the Carlin or Carline, that is, the Old Woman." The name the "Old Woman" (Latin vetula) for such "corn dolls" was in use among the Germanic pagans of Flanders in the 7th century, where Saint Eligius discouraged them from their old practices: " make vetulas, (little figures of the Old Woman), little deer or iotticos or set tables at night or exchange New Year gifts or supply superfluous drinks ."
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