Green little corn.”[644]
At Tabor in Bohemia the figure of Death is carried out of the town and flung from a high rock into the water, while they sing—
“Death swims on the water,
Summer will soon be here,
We carried Death away for you,
We brought the Summer.
And do thou, O holy Marketa,
Give us a good year
For wheat and for rye.”[645]
In other parts of Bohemia they carry Death to the end of the village, singing—