Guldize

Guldize, Gooldize (sometimes Dicklydize or Nickly Thize) is the harvest festival of the Cornish people.

The festival was held at the end of the wheat harvest and took the form of a vast feast usually around the time of the autumnal equinox.

A. K. Hamilton Jenkin wrote in his book Cornish Homes and Customs, On the evening of the day on which the neck was cut the harvesters would repair to the farmhouse kitchen.

Here numerous company in addition to farmers own family would sit down to a substantial meal of broiled pork and potatoes, the second course consisted of Apple pie, cream and 'fuggans' the whole being washed down with cider and spirits.

[1] 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".