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Symbolism
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Religious - Sickle

The sickle is an instrument of the harvest, alluding to Christ's parable of the wheat field, death cuts us down after which the wheat is separated from the chaff. This example is seen on the memorial of Mary ann Hicks (1862) in the churchyard ao St Agnes, Isles of Scilly. CIP Ref. 1/128.

Religious - Sickle