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A wicker man was purportedly a large wicker statue in which the druids sacrificed humans and animals by burning. The primary evidence for this practice is a sentence by Roman general Julius Caesar in
An 18th-century illustration of a wicker man. Engraving from A Tour in Wales written by Thomas Pennant.
Illustration of human sacrifices in Gaul from Myths and legends; the Celtic race (1910) by T. W. Rolleston
Wicker man on fire at the Archaeolink Prehistory Park, Oyne, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
A lifesize modern pagan wicker man, in south east London, England
The Commenta Bernensia and Adnotationes Super Lucanum are two 9th-century compilations of scholia on the Latin poet Lucan's Pharsalia.
The text of Lucan's Pharsalia in the 9th-century manuscript Bern 45, with the Commenta Bernensia in the margins
