Scarecrow

A scarecrow is a life-sized effigy of a human being, but could in no way be confused for an actual living person. They are classically used by farmers and propped up inside of a corn field to "scare crows" (as well as other wildlife) from eating their crops. Traditionally, a scarecrow is put together using baggy clothes such as jeans, overalls and flannel and stuffed with straw. The head is usually a sack of some kind, also filled with straw and adorned with a large hat. In speculative fiction, there have been a number of living scarecrows, the most infamous of which is the brainless unnamed scarecrow from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. Discovered by Dorothy Gale, the clumsy dancing artificial man decided to accompany her to the Emerald City in the hopes that the Wizard of Oz would be kind enough to bestow upon him a brain.