In the middle of June the farmers of Moray went round their corn carrying burning torches. The minister of Elgin, writing in Pennant’s appendix, took it for a memory of the Roman Cerealia.
Torches round the corn at midsummer in Moray
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In the middle of June farmers go round their corn with burning torches, in memory of the Cerealia.
From Pennant's Tours, A Tour in Scotland, 1769, 3rd ed., p. 291. Read the original
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