English folk song figure John Barleycorn. The title is taken from the British folksong "John Barleycorn". According to Frazer, the sacred king represented the spirit of vegetation, a divine John Barleycorn. He helped John Barleycorn and Arrow retrieve the jar and joined Fabletown. Traffic were working on "John Barleycorn Must Die" at Island Studios at the same time. Doulton first introduced these character jugs in 1934 with Noke's own John Barleycorn. "John Barleycorn" is a British folk song (Roud 164). Their set ends with Hanly singing "John Barleycorn" and "The Verdant Braes of Skreen". In his autobiographical novel, "John Barleycorn," London mentioned the pub's likeness seventeen times. In his memoir, "John Barleycorn", he claims also to have stolen French Frank's mistress Mamie.