Thanks for that, Johnny. Otherwise - there is confusion with the pub name & the Eccliastical Foliate Heads (to give Green Men their proper title!), a confusion further compounded by the fact that in relatively recent years almost all pubs called The Green Man use a foliate head on their sign, rather than the more traditional image of Robin Hood, or some such. Whether this is a case of folklore reinventing itself, or of a more genuine folk process I can't say, but it doesn't help in clarifying the nature and purpose of the Ecclesiastical Foliate Heads which were first called Green Men by Lady Raglan as recently as 1939!

There has always been folkloric interest in The Green Man as a pub name, as with other pub names, and it's obvious the researchers of The Wicker Man dug deep for their material, but even so this could well be one of the earliest instances of a Green Man of any description in a neo-pagan (as oppose to a folkloric) context, no matter how put on that context might have been. As has already been noted, the influence of the film upon neo-paganism is not inconsiderable.

The study of folklore is not the study of paganism, even though many pagans would assume this to be the case!

Sedayne.