WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE GREEN MAN? WAS HE A GOD ASSOCIATED WITH TREES AND WOODLAND, FOREST AND COPSES? WE SEE THE FACE PEERING OUT OF THE LEAVES, THE FACE MADE UP OF LEAVES, PERFECT CAMOUFLAGE. DO YOU FEEL HIM WATCHING YOU WHEN YOU WALK AMONGST THE TREES?

THE GREEN MAN PUBLIC HOUSE IS FAIRLY COMMON. THE GREEN MAN ALSO APPEARS IN VILLAGE TRADITION. THERE IS A TOWN IN DEBYSHIRE CALLED ASHBOURNE WHERE THE GREEN MAN APPEARS EVERY YEAR BUT HOW MANY PEOPLE KNOW THAT HE IS A PAGAN ENTITY?

IS THERE A LINK BETWEEN THE GREEN MAN AND THE DRYAD?

EVERY TREE IS INHABITED BY A DRYAD BUT IS THERE A GREEN MAN TO EVERY TREE? WHAT CONNECTION BETWEEN THE SPIRIT/ENERGY OF THE TREE, THE DRYAD AND THE GREEN MAN? WHEN THERE IS NO WRITTEN RECORD OF OUR PAGAN HISTORY WHERE CAN WE FIND THE ANSWERS TO OUR QUESTIONS? THIS IS OFTEN WHERE THE BULLSHIT CAN PUT IN AN APPEARANCE AS SOMEONE HAS WRITTEN THIS IS...AND FOLK BELIEVE WHAT IS WRITTEN AND SO IT GOES ON DOWN THE LINE.

IF YOU KNOW YOUR HISTORY YOU WILL BE AWARE THAT THE MAJORITY OF THE LAND KNOWN AS BRITAIN WAS COVERED BY WOODLAND AND FOREST, IN THE MAIN, DECIDUOUS. THE POPULATION EXPANDED ONLY SLOWLY, VAST TRACTS OF LAND WERE HIDDEN FROM SUNLIGHT EXCEPT IN WINTER WHEN THE LEAVES HAD FALLEN. DAMP WOODLAND, HOME TO SO MANY MAMMALS THAT ARE MISSING TODAY. BACK THEN BEARS, WOLVES AND WILD BOAR WERE COMMON. THE GREY SQUIRREL WAS UNKNOWN HERE. THE POPULATION OF ANTELOPE MUST HAVE BEEN ENORMOUS BACK THEN WOLVES WOULD HAVE LIVED QUITE COMFORTABLY HUNTING THE DEER POPULATION AND NEVER ENCROACHING UPON HUMAN HABITATION, NEVER CONDIERED A PEST AS TODAY. GO FURTHER BACK IN TIME . FOSSILISED REMAINS OF CREATURES TODAY FOUND ONLY IN AFRICA AND ASIA ARE FOUND IN MODERN TIMES IN BRITAIN. 

AS RECENTLY AS THE THIRTEEN HUNDREDS THE AREA WHERE I CURRENTLY LIVE WAS PART OF THE KINGS HUNTING FOREST. IT STRETCHED ALMOST FROM COAST TO COAST. NO WONDER THE SHERIFF OF NOTTINGHAM COULD NOT CATCH ROBIN HOOD IN SHERWOOD FOREST, IT WAS SO VAST.

AS THE POPULATION EXPANDED TREES WERE DESTROYED TO CREATE ARABLE LAND FOR CROPS AND LAND FOR GRAZING STOCK, IT WAS A VERY SLOW PROCESS, EVERYTHING WAS DONE BY HAND. NOT LIKE TODAY WHERE WOODLAND IS BEING DESTROYED AT AN ALARMING RATE ESPECIALLY IN THE RAINFORESTS OF THE WORLD. ANIMAL HABITAT IS BEING DESTROYED WHICH IS ENDANGERING MANY SPECIES. THERE IS ALSO THE POINT THAT LESS VEGETATION MEANS LESS OXYGEN AND ALSO THE INCREASE IN GLOBAL WARMING. TREES USE CARBON DIOXIDE AND CREATE THE GAS WE NEED TO BREATHE. IT IS HAPPENING MUCH MORE QUICKLY BECAUSE OF MODERN METHODS SUCH AS CHAIN SAWS. THERE IS ALSO AN AWFUL LOT OF BURNING OF FORESTED AREAS.

SO THE GREEN MAN MUST BE PISSED OFF. WHAT IS HE DOING ABOUT IT?