Crying the Neck is a harvest festival tradition once common in counties of Devon and Cornwall in the United Kingdom, in which a farm worker holds aloft the final handful of cut corn and a series of calls are chanted. The tradition declined following the invention of machines such as the combine harvester, but despite this has persisted into modern times across Devon and Cornwall albeit to a more limited extent.
Crying the Neck is a harvest festival tradition once common in counties of Devon and Cornwall in the United Kingdom, in which a farm worker holds aloft the final handful of cut corn and a series of calls are chanted. The tradition declined following the invention of machines such as the combine harvester, but despite this has persisted into modern times across Devon and Cornwall albeit to a more limited extent.
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