Woodwose

The Woodwose or hairy wildman of the woods was the Sasquatch figure of pre-Christian Gaul

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, in Anglo-Saxon

Old English language

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a wuduwasa. Images of woodwoses appear in the carved and painted roof bosses where intersecting ogee

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vault

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s meet in the cathedral of Canterbury

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, in positions where one is also likely to encounter the vegetal Green Man

Green Man

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The Woodwose or hairy wildman of the woods was the Sasquatch figure of pre-Christian Gaul