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The wicker man is the name given to a large figure of wickerwork and wood in which, according to some Graeco-Roman writers, the Gauls burned human and animal sacrifices. The two main accounts are Julius Caesar's de Bello Gallico and Strabo's Geographica, both probably deriving from the lost ethnography of the Greek philosopher Posidonius. Caesar describes huge wickerwork images filled with living... (Wikipedia)