Jack-in-the-Green and the Green Man: One and the Same?

If you head to Hastings in Kent for the May Day celebrations, you may see a strange figure at the parade. Morris dancers ply their trade alongside a person wearing a huge decoration of leaves and branches. This person is known as the Jack-in-the-Green. But who or what is this unusual figure? Does he represent […]

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