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To celebrate the 5th birthday of the Really Wild Festival we are holding a Really Wild Scarecrow Competition.
There are three classes:
- Scarecrow made by family or group. Cash prize
- Scarecrow made by child or children under 12 years. Cash Prize
- Best scarecrow made totally of wild materials foraged from the hedgerows, shoreline or woodland. Cash Prize
Each scarecrow will be given an identification number and will be judged by the Saturday visitors to the festival.
ENTRY RULES
Your scarecrow must be made from scratch.
Your scarecrow must be able to withstand all weather conditions.
Your scarecrow must be a maximum of 6ft high.
You must include some recycled materials in classes 1 and 2.
You will be responsible for erecting your scarecrow on the festival field before 9.30 on Saturday 5th and for dismantling it after 5pm on Sunday 6th.
Contact Deborah Withey at cheesepicklesstudio@gmail.com for entry form and more details.
More about scarecrows...
A SCARECROW was a device, traditionally a human figure, built with two pieces of wood in a cross shape and dressed in discarded farm clothes and stuffed with straw, that was used to discourage birds such as crows from disturbing and eating crops.
The mystical-looking Scarecrow was one of the most familiar figures in the rural landscape, not only in the United Kingdom but throughout the world. His ragged figure has been recorded in rural history for centuries. The earliest known written fact about scarecrows was written in 1592 and his image has proved irresistible to writers from William Shakespeare to Walter de la Mare as well as to film makers since the dawn of the silent movie. Yet, despite all his fame, the origins and the development of the scarecrow have remained obscured in mystery.
The decline of the scarecrow has been due to the change of farming technology and now the birds are scared away by audible sonic devices.
The Welsh for Scarecrow is BWBACH
Other local names are:
- Mommet - Somerset.
- Murmet - Devon.
- Mammet - Yorkshire, Lancashire.
- Mawhini - Suffolk, Norfolk, East Anglia.
- Hodmedod – (with hat and stick) Berkshire & Isle of Wight.
- Tattie Bogies – Those standing in potato fields.
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