From Hedingham Fair : ...Green Man image, which revealed both a market and a much deeper British mystical culture and heritage underlying contemporary folk customs - centuries of strife ridden Christianity superimposed on more ancient nature religions, mythologies and deities.

Which is, of course, 100% hogwash, though you can't argue there is certainly a market for it! It's this sort of thinking that generally obscures any true perspectives on The Green Man by miring it in an ersatz spirituality which is, alas, a complete fantasy fabricated on the back of some very wayward thinking indeed - the stuff we've been exploring in this thread. I'm heartened of late by the Shire Library's publication of Richard Hayman's The Green Man, but still, sadly, the ill-founded Fakeloric fake-paganism proliferates.