Saturday, 5 August 2023

John Barleycorn

A new Colganology vlog.

Recorded in the week of Lughnasadh - the festival that marks the start of the harvest season. In this video I talk about the folk song 'John Barleycorn', corn dollies and the Cornish ceremony of 'Crying the Neck'. 

Plus the usual nature notes - tiny mushrooms, vandalising deer and the witch's favourite trinity of trees - oak, ash and thorn.

 

Here's a great version of the song by folk supergroup The Imagined Village:
    


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