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Liskeard Unlocked - Crying The Neck
Cattle Market Events Area, The Workshed, Cattle Market Car Park, Liskeard, Cornwall PL14 6AB
Saturday 14 Sep 2024
Sat 14 Sep:1600; Free Entry.
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Liskeard Unlocked - Crying The Neck
Heritage Open Day: This ancient pagan, but later Christianised, ceremony has been celebrated in Cornish farming communities for many centuries to give thanks at the end of Harvest time. Visitors can join in. After a prayer and a reading the last cut of corn (the neck) is raised amid set shouts and responses, all in both the Cornish and English languages.
Visitors will be given the responses in both languages so they can join in as the neck is raised towards the North, East and South (never to the West as this could result in a poor Harvest the following year). Assisted by a local choir a rousing rendition of Trelawny will be sung to end the occasion, which is held by 40+ Old Cornwall Societies across the County.
Visitors will be given the responses in both languages so they can join in as the neck is raised towards the North, East and South (never to the West as this could result in a poor Harvest the following year). Assisted by a local choir a rousing rendition of Trelawny will be sung to end the occasion, which is held by 40+ Old Cornwall Societies across the County.