In the modern world, wicker men are used for various events.
They brought moisture to the eyes of the soldiers who followed the wicker man.
It was in easy striking distance for the wicker man.
He might get away with defying the wicker man once.
The wicker man would have screamed in rage had he been able.
Some wicker men are extremely complex and require days of construction.
When those old men finished the rite, they set the head on the wicker man's neck.
He is then burned alive within a huge hollow wicker man.
Save for the wicker man, Glover found it all very familiar.
He had kept his word, and the wicker man rising above the hill fort would not claim its victims after all.