A Look at Some Pagan Wild Man Costumes Still in Use; Not Your Average Halloween Getups!
Steve Barton
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French photographer Charles Fréger has spent the last several years traveling to 19 European countries and trying to capture the spirit of what he calls “tribal Europe” in his “Wilder Mann” series. He discovered a veritable wellspring of pagan rituals that are mainly related to the winter solstice and spring renewal… each focusing on the common myth of the “wild man.”
Via Wikipedia:
The wild man (also wildman or “wildman of the woods,” archaically woodwose or wodewose) is a mythical figure that appears in the artwork and literature of medieval Europe, comparable to the satyr or faun type in classical mythology and to Silvanus, the Roman god of the woodlands.
Fun, scary, and thoroughly stimulating, take a look at some of the finest examples below.
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