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Following her recent coronation as Demeter’s Harvest Festival Queen, Lilith Hammond has been reported missing. Calliope, concerned for her friend, and Finn, wary of the town’s unexplained past ...

and dancers take to the stage before a Harvest Queen is chosen amid a backdrop of spectacular fireworks. Dewi Sri, the rice goddess, is venerated as a matter of course in Bali, where rice is the ...

Then the evening’s “wassail queen” (who symbolizes fertility and ... “When it all does go wrong, and the harvest is down, and we haven’t got as many apples for the year as normal ...