Basajaun: the wild man of the woods and his female version: basandere.

The wild man of the woods - the vagabond - the out-law who lives beyond the rules of society.

But one of them thought he was a wandering wild man of the woods, a harmless crazy simpleton.

Local children who heard him calling for help actually thought they were hearing the 'wild man of the woods' calling them and ran home in terror.

You hear the Woses, the Wild Men of the Woods: thus they talk together from afar.

Darcy's grandfather was something of a "wild man of the woods", living as a hermit accompanied by his faithful hound.

Among them were cruder weapons, stone-and metal-tipped spears and clubs, the work of the wild men of the woods.

Sooner or later they will get you, my dear Tarzan, and then they will lock the wild man of the woods up behind iron bars.

It makes me think of the wild men of the woods, how terrified they would be when they got breast to breast with the open space.

Bookwus ("Wild man of the woods") masks are carved with deep inset eyes, a hooked nose, and features similar to those of a human skull.

He experiences a doomed romance with Princess Ganieda and long years of madness as a wild man of the woods before finding his destiny.

The woodwose, a sort of cousin of the Green Man, is the legendary European 'wild man of the woods'.

He heard about the rumored giant Sasquatch, a name which means "wild men of the woods," from an old Indian hired to take him up the fjord.

Basajaunberro: Site of Basajaun (the wild man of the woods), in Auritz (Navarre).

The Believers Kiel calls the ominous creature "Squatch," short for "Sasquatch," a word in a Native American language that means "wild man of the woods".

He bursts into the presence of Julius Caesar and tells the emperor that only the wild man of the woods can interpret the dream that has been troubling him.

Among the foliage are "green men" (in medieval lore, wild men of the woods), baby boars eating acorns fallen from oak leaves above, and a hare pursued by hounds.

Wild men of the woods can be seen on heraldic shields and the men of the greenwood appealed to the imagination of Shakespeare in his Forest of Arden.

The first was by Pye Records in 1960 entitled This is Hancock containing "The Wild Man of The Woods" and "Sunday Afternoon At Home."

At a scout camp in a forest south of Hattiesburg, Brent said the two made Dudley a costume to look like a mythical, child-snatching "Wild Man of the Woods."

'Green' show: Touring theatre company Jack Drum Arts and Entertainment visits North Yorkshire villages this summer, staging a 'green'pantomime, The Wild Man of the Woods.

Other knights-errant have been assisted by wild men of the woods, as in Valentine and Orson, or, like Guillaume de Palerme, by wolves that were, in fact, enchanted princes.

Surely episodes such as "The Diary", "The Income Tax Demand", "The Wild Man of the Woods" and especially "The TV Set" are infinitely better.

This mechanical camel was led during the processions by a costumed figure named Papari, who was escorted by other men disguised as wild men of the woods, whose heads were decorated with leaves.

Grimalte does this, finding Panfilo alone and silent in the forest, and in his turn Grimalte becomes a wild man of the woods, haunted by visions of Fiammetta in hell.

Outside the hall, if the woodwose draws on me, I shall kill him.

Outside the hall I could answer you, Woodwose!

The first element of woodwose is usually explained as from wudu "wood", "forest".

His unruly beard and feathers may relate to the tradition of the woodwose or wild man.

For example, it tells of an encounter which fits the description of a wild man or Woodwose:

Basajaun is a Basque version of the Woodwose.

Then Saeros rising spat blood upon the board, and spoke from a broken mouth: "How long shall we harbour this woodwose?"

Milton's Puck is not small and sprightly, but nearer to a Green Man or a hairy woodwose.

In Middle English, there was the term woodwose (also spelled wodewose, woodehouse, wudwas etc.).

The Urscumug is twice the height of an adult human being, and is a malevolent and ancient variation on the woodwose.

The woodwose, a sort of cousin of the Green Man, is the legendary European 'wild man of the woods'.

(Saeros the Elf of Doriath called Turin a "woodwose," p. 85 above The word survived long in English and was eventually corrupted into "wood-house.")

Hughes is no Wordsworthian nature poet, rather one whose imaginative landscape is populated by mythological crows, Dionysian leopards and the woodwose - that elusive half-human creature that reputedly haunted the English countryside.

Heather looked up Britain and was met by a Derbyshire tale about a woodwose, a satyr that emerged from a wood on Midsummer Eve in the guise of some local youth, whose betrothed it then seduced.

He knew that to these men in their rich cloaks, their fine linen tunics, their wealth and ornaments, he must look like a beggar of the wilds, a woodwose or some strange thing out of the hill legends.

The woodwose usually carries a stick or bough as a weapon, as does this fellow on a misericord in Faversham's parish church - the only woodwose I know of depicted in Kent.

Gillian Chadwick has also performed with Jessica Weeks as Woodwose, and with Sharron Kraus as Rusalnaia, in addition to being a contributing member to the band Golden Ball which she co-founded with her husband.

In December 2014 Andrew won British Composer Awards in the categories for Community or Educational Project (for Woodwose: A Community Chamber Opera) and for Stage Works (for Dart's Love).

There may have been a set of nature spirits or gods akin to the Greek Satyrs, the Celtic god Cernunnos and the Dusii, Slavic Veles and the Leszi, the Germanic Woodwose, elves and dwarves.

For example, figures of pre-Christian Irish mythology continued in diminutive forms alongside Christian culture, and Greek deities continued to be used as icons in Victorian Britain; in such ways the woodwose could be the mythological incarnation of past interactions with the last foraging societies of Europe.

Right: that wodewose in full.

In Middle English, there was the term woodwose (also spelled wodewose, woodehouse, wudwas etc.).

The malevolent and ancient Urscumug, a variation on the wodewose, is sought out by George Huxley, but never encountered.

Lydus's understanding of Mamurius may be connected to medieval lore of the wodewose or wild man of the wood, who could play a similar role in winter or new year ceremonies pertaining to Twelfth Night and carnival.

The wild man (also wildman, or "wildman of the woods", archaically woodwose or wodewose) is a mythical figure that appears in the artwork and literature of medieval Europe, comparable to the satyr or faun type in classical mythology and to Silvanus, the Roman god of the woodlands.