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Crying the Neck


Crying The Neck is a harvest festival tradition practised in the Duchy of Cornwall, Britain. The tradition was also once popular in the county of Devon, but its practice there has since died out. The tradition was revived in the early twentieth century by the Old Cornwall Society.

In The Story of Cornwall, by Kenneth Hamilton Jenkin, the following explanation is given on the practice:

The rest would then shout,

and the reply would be:

Everyone then joined in shouting:

(calling the farmer by name.)"

In a harvest scene in the third episode of the second series of the 2015 reboot of Poldark, Francis Poldark performs the tradition at Trenwith, his estate.

In a harvest scene in the third episode of supernatural drama The Living and the Dead, Charlotte Appleby performs the tradition at her husband's family's farm, which she manages.

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