Green Man
In English folklore, a figure dressed and covered in foliage, associated with festivities celebrating the arrival of spring.
His face is represented in a variety of English church carvings, in wood or stone, often with a protruding tongue. Similar figures also occur in French and German folklore, the earliest related carvings being in Trier, France, on the River Mosel (about AD 200).
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