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A look at the Scarecrow U.S.
Creatures made of straw, dressed as elves or other forces of the dark spirit has been part of the tradition U.S. farm. They were intended to ward off intruders such as food crops from birds and animals and the thieves who stole garden produce. In some cases, it was believed that the abundance of lawyers scarecrows encouraged. Throughout history there have been protectors of culture that could invite the divine blessings of the gods as food Priapus, Greek god of farmers. In all cases, whether welcome or scary scarecrows had an important job to do, they took care of the crops when the farmer was away.
Historically, the straw man as we know it here in America has a strong kinship with the spirits of straw around the world. As a protector of the culture was the scarecrow prepared Slavic "spirits of the field." Starch Polish (spirit), for example, had a reputation for using puzzles and difficult questions on suspicion of theft, with disease threats to the attacker, who answered incorrectly.
The field has polevoj Russian spirit of the forest to the field at noon and punished those he found causing damage to crops.
Centuries before seemed scarecrows in the fields, however, the task of scaring the crows were treated by the children. According to "scarecrow" (Storey Books) by Felder Rushing, Captain John Smith and his crew reported colonists in Virginia noting "small round huts woven vines and pods perched atop wooden poles. They soon discovered that one of the main tasks children summer and fall was hiding in houses small basket by crows and deer came into the fields to eat. "
It was observed that children, then scare the intruders, making noise and banging drums to keep them away.
Taking its cue from Indians of British settlers led to the suspension of strips of cloth and fur animals in their fields. In the 17th century, these early scarecrows, dressed in discarded clothes, he began taking a more human form.
Thomas Jefferson included, with three of them in Farmbook, a guide to exploration, he published in 1826.
Around the 19th century, the American scarecrow began to be used for decoration and for practical purposes. Creative expression has become more common, and modernized agricultural techniques, such as chemicals appeared farm on the horizon, these numbers crop evolved to assume a more ornamental and artistic activities, including appearances in the movies.
The most notable is in The Wizard of Oz. There is the scarecrow, much like the scarecrows in Kansas cornfield, which are perched on top of posts so it can be seen above the corn stalks, guides to Dorothy, who is lost to the Emerald City, where she finds a way to return home. But before that came the classic movie The Scarecrow, a silent film with Buster Keaton in 1920 as a scarecrow that comes alive and gets in the way of machinery that forever changed the agricultural landscape.
scarecrow today can be found in many Harvest Festivals and school gardens throughout the country. Realistically dressed in better clothes, hand-painted yarn with carved faces and bodies, undeniably scary face with the sinister red and black nails, or neatly placed on bicycles or in familiar settings such as picnics, they create a unique landscaped garden – On the front porch and the garden – that is memorable.
About the Author
Karen Pierce Gonzalez is publisher of folkheart press (http://www.folkheartpress.com) and author of “Family Folktales: What Are Yours?” and the soon to be released “Family Folktales: Write Your Own Family Stories.” Join her Folktale Conversation at http://folkheartpressblog.blogspot.com