The grazers or boskoi are a category of hermits and anchorites, men and women, in Christianity, that developed in the first millennium of the Christian era, mainly in the Christian East, in Syria, Palestine, Pontus, Mesopotamia, and Egypt. However, the majority of them were situated in Palestine and Syria.
Saint Paul, "The First Hermit", Jusepe de Ribera, Museo del Prado (1640)
Russian-style icon of Saint Mary of Egypt, surrounded by scenes from her life (17th century, Beliy Gorod).
Mar Saba monastery, founded by the disciples of Sabbas the Sanctified, a Palestinian grazer hermit and monk
Paul the Hermit, by Jusepe de Ribera (1644)
The wild man, wild man of the woods, or woodwose/wodewose is a mythical figure and motif that appears in the art and literature of medieval Europe, comparable to the satyr or faun type in classical mythology and to Silvanus, the Roman god of the woodlands.
Wild men support coats of arms in the side panels of a portrait by Albrecht Dürer, 1499 (Alte Pinakothek, Munich).
The Fight in the Forest, drawing by Hans Burgkmair, possibly of a scene from the Middle High German poem Sigenot, about Dietrich von Bern
Knight saving a woman from a wild man, ivory coffer, 14th century
Wild people, in the margins of a late 14th-century Book of Hours
