Lady death mowing down a victim with her scythe. A demon of the harvest fields in the shape of a mourning widow. Is it any wonder that folklore symbolically conflates death and the harvest in such potent images when the harvest was the very heart and pulse of the agricultural communities of the ‘folk’? We will encounter these beings whose very nature combines life-giving harvest and death-giving exhaustion from labour - we will encounter harvest demons in the golden wheat fields and the life-stripping heat of the noonday sun in Poland, Russia and Slovenia. We will also meet the wolf-shepherd, an unusual patron to Croatian cattle farmers and their gentle field dwelling bovines.
All music by Co-Ag Music (available on Youtube)