PARA-156-Scarecrow

Caretaker Status: Unknown

Affiliated companion(s): COM-21-156-1

Level 1 - concrete
Word: Scarecrow

Origin:
1550s, from scare (v.) + crow (n.). Earliest reference is to a person employed to scare birds.
Meaning "device of straw and cloth in grotesque resemblance of a man, set up in a grain field or garden to frighten crows," is implied by 1580s; hence "gaunt, ridiculous person" (1590s).
An older name for such a thing was shewel. Shoy-hoy apparently is another old word for a straw-stuffed scarecrow (Cobbett began using it as a political insult in 1819 and others picked it up; OED defines it as "one who scares away birds from a sown field," and says it is imitative of their cry). Also fray-boggard (1530s).

Definition:
An object, usually a figure of a person in old clothes, set up to frighten crows or other birds away from crops.

Magic Status: 0 - Uninitiated

Wisdom Status: 0 - Unaware