[Jamestown1630]

Thanks; but I’m referring to the plots of the stories and the dialogue. Of course they are metaphors in her story, but they express similarly to The Wicker Man.

[nopardons]

In THE LOTTERY, they did NOT pick young girls for sacrifice...it was ANYONE of ANY age, whose ticket was blindly chosen. And there was NO burning of said sacrificial person AND animals; unlike in THE WICKERMAN.

Neither was it a FESTIVAL...for the coming year/crops.

THE WICKERMAN used many ancient customs, such as MORRIS DANCERS, which for me, because I knew all about that, when I first saw the film, was WONDERFUL!

THE LOTTERY was actually far more about just HOW crazy/lefty and relatively insular, when Jackson lived there, was.

I read THE LOTTERY when I was quite young, fell in love with her style and then read EVERY book and short story she had written; but did NOT know about her first forays into writing, which were family and "happy" tale...until I read her bio. What a shock and an eye opener THAT was.