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Harvest Home | Techniques

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Harvest Home Techniques

Occasional mystery and gradually mounting suspense combine with local color, folklore, and mythic symbols in this tall tale. The Widow Fortune, with her obviously symbolic name and the scissors that hang at her belt, might be the third Greek Fate who cuts off the thread of life. Most of the folk festivals, ceremonial fires, and pagan fertility rituals will be recognizable to readers of James Frazer's The Golden Bough (1890).

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Harvest Home from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.
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