Myth about Farming

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This website has many myths. For example:
The Forgotten Ear Of Corn

An Arikara woman was once gathering corn
from the field to store away for winter use.
She passed from stalk to stalk, tearing off
the ears and dropping them into her folded
robe. When all was gathered she started to
go, when she heard a faint voice, like a
child's, weeping and calling:"Oh, do not leave
me! Do not go away without me."The woman
was astonished. "What child can that be?"
she asked herself. "What babe can be lost in
the cornfield?"She set down her robe in
which she had tied up her corn, and went
back to search; but she found nothing.
As she started away she heard the voice
again:"Oh, do not leave me. Do not go away
without me."She searched for a long time.
At last in one corner of the field, hidden
under the leaves of the stalks, she found one
little ear of corn. This it was that had been
crying, and this is why all Indian women have
since garnered their corn crop very carefully,
so that the succulent food product should not
even to the last small nubbin be neglected or
wasted, and thus displease the Great Mystery.