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I hate to be the one to answer this when so many have just left this one alone, but...
...the crucifix was a Roman tool of execution. It was in no way based on a scarecrow. It was based on killing somebody slowly, painfully and with little effort on the part of the executioner.
Christianity certainly borrows a lot of its iconography and festivals from agrarian religions, but not, you will find, the cross itself.
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