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A Little History about the Green Man from which Jack-In-The-Green was born... The Green Man is a symbol pre-Christian in His origins, but later adopted by Gothic carvers and placed in thousands of churches and cathedrals throughout Europe, from Ireland and Scotland to Russia. He is usually shown as a male head formed as a leaf mask, often disgorging vegetation from His mouth. He stands for humanity’s “deep kinship with trees and woods,” irrepressible life, and the cycle of renewal and rebirth.
His face stares down at us from the roofs and pillars of our great cathedrals and churches. He is found all over England, some parts of Wales and Scotland and a few rare places in Ireland. His roots may go back to the shadow hunters who painted the caves of Lascaux and Altimira and may climb through history through Robin Hood and the Morris Dances of Old England to be chiseled in wood and stone even to this day by men and women who no longer know his story but sense that something old and strong and tremendously important lies behind his leafy mask. He is the Green Man, Jack in the Green, the Old Man of the Woods, Green George and many other things to many other people.
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