Green Man (folklore)

The idea has been contested by other folklorists, who assert that Lady Raglan had no evidence that the foliate head motif or other concepts she associated with it were pagan in nature.

[3][4] Lady Raglan's idea of the "Green Man" was adopted from the 1960s onward by the New Age and Neopagan movements,[3][4] and some authors have considered it to represent a Jungian archetype.

[6] In Thomas Nashe's masque Summer's Last Will and Testament (1592, printed 1600), the character commenting upon the action remarks, after the exit of "Satyrs and wood-Nymphs", "The rest of the green men have reasonable voices […]".

[8] Within many of these depictions, the Green Man figure absorbs and supplants a variety of other wild men and gods, in particular those which are associated with a seasonal death and rebirth.

The Green Men (including a suffragist irritated by the name) and their powers figure significantly in K. J. Charles's novel The Spectred Isle (2017), which was nominated for a RITA Award.

[12] In Wicca, the Green Man has often been used as a representation of the Horned God, a syncretic deity that incorporates aspects of, among others, the Celtic Cernunnos and the Greek Pan.

The sign of the Greene Man pub along Euston Road near Great Portland Street Station in the City of Westminster .
The Great Dish, or Great Plate of Bacchus from the Mildenhall Treasure , now in the British Museum
Grave slab in Shebbear churchyard in Devon showing skull
Dramatised combat between the Green Man and Jack Frost at a community festival in Yorkshire
Costumed performer at Scarborough Faire (2007)