The Wicker Man: Fire, Faith, and the Shape of Sacrifice

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they say the wicker man stood tall woven from branches hollow inside waiting the ancient druids were told would lead prisoners or volunteers inside its wooden cage an offering to the gods a ritual of smoke and spectacle fire is both release and message but whether the ritual ever happened

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exactly like that is beside the point the idea of the wicker man has endured and that endurance means something because in every era we build one Not from wicker, maybe, but from people, from stories, from those we choose to burn to prove we still believe in something.

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The wicker man is a symbol, a myth wrapped around a frame of power and belief. It's what societies do when they feel their center slipping. They choose someone to put in the structure. someone to blame someone to cleanse someone to sacrifice that could be a heretic a

The Wicker Man: Fire, Faith, and the Shape of Sacrifice

Federico Blanco Sánchez-Llanos

May 08, 2025

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“The Willow Man” by Philip Halling, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Willow_Man_-_geograph.org.uk_-_472863.jpg

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