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Thread #113747   Message #2423294
Posted By: Jack Blandiver
27-Aug-08 - 10:07 AM
Thread Name: '5000 Morris Dancers'
Subject: RE: '5000 Morris Dancers'
Whilst the Green Men of Folk Tradition, revived or otherwise, are often to be seen brandishing obviously phallic clubs, the so-called Green Men as found in pre-reformation churches have no genital associations, even though often cited as being the consort to the Sheela-na-Gigs, which most certainly do.

I recently came across this carving on a medieval church on The Fylde, Lancashire: A Sexual Contortionist, who might well give many an Olympic athlete pause to ponder, although one does hear reports that Prince once had certain ribs removed so me could perform such feats on his own person. My view, however, is that what we have here is a Sheela-na-Gig, albeit one about the business of giving herself cunnilingus - perhaps the sort of thing the stone mason saw one night in a passing carnival & felt obliged to immortalise in local stone.