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Guldize, Gooldize or Goel dheys (sometimes dicklydize or Nickly Thize) is the harvest festival of the Cornish people. Guldize is Cornish language for "The feast of ricks". The festival itself was held at the end of the wheat harvest and took the form of a vast feast usually around the time of the Autumn equinox. The ceremony of Crying The Neck took place before the feast the neck being formed into a Corn dolly which presided over the celebrations.〔AK Hamilton Jenking ''Cornish Homes and Customs'' 1932〕 Since 2008 a revived Guldize celebration has been held in Penzance and since 2010 in several other locations across Cornwall. ==Historical description== A. K. Hamilton Jenkin wrote in his book ''Cornish Homes and Customs'', The playing of music and communal singing followed sometimes throughout the night.〔 A number of songs in particular have been recorded as being sung on these occasions, including "Green Brooms", "Here's a health to the barley mow", and "Harvest Home". A number of customs also were associated with the feast, a man would have been chosen to rush to the site of the feast with the corn neck and enter the building by stealth avoiding an appointed lady who would have soaked the carrier of the neck if discovered. If this game was successful then the carrier of the neck would have been entitled to take a kiss from female "guard" of the property.〔Simon Reed - The Cornish Traditional Year 2009〕 The earliest reference to Guldize was in 1602 by Richard Carew in his ''Survey of Cornwall''.〔Richard Carew 1602 ''Survey of Cornwall''〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Guldize」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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