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How do you celebrate harvest? Learn more about harvest in the UK and the history and traditions in our handy guide.

... last load, and the following rhymes were sung: 'The boughs do shake, and the bells do ring, So merrily comes our harvest in, Our harvest in, our harvest in,

The act of the cutting was variously known as "Crying the Mare" or "Cutting the Neck" with a great many local variants upon this. At its most basic, however, ...