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October Fest

Date
Kind of Event
Demonstration
Festival
Country
United Kingdom

The year is turning towards the dark, its time to burn the Wicker Man again!

A wicker man was purportedly a large wicker statue in which the druids (priests of Celtic paganism) sacrificed humans and animals by burning. The main evidence for this practice is a sentence by Roman general Julius Caesar in his Commentary on the Gallic War (1st century BC), which modern scholarship has linked to an earlier Greek writer, Poseidonius.