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my thoughts turn to the icon of the green man. Leaves eventually turn colors, but I have not yet seen a fall-ish "brown" man before.  Never I mind, for this life is young. This "green man" is among my favorites. The artist is known as Lapinfille, which means Bunny Girl. She crafts arresting images by deft photo-blurring collage. The hair here is feminine but the face is softly androgynous.

Lady Raglan coined the term in the 1930s, but the idea predates written language. Other names for leafy spirits of the woods:

Puck

Jack in the Green

Robin Goodfellow

Will o' the Wisp

Robin of the Woods

------ Snipped from A Midsummer Night's Dream,  Act II Scene I and spoken by Titania:

Call'd Robin Goodfellow: are not you he
That frights the maidens of the villagery;
Skim milk, and sometimes labour in the quern
And bootless make the breathless housewife churn;
And sometime make the drink to bear no barm;
Mislead night-wanderers, laughing at their harm?
Those that Hobgoblin call you and sweet Puck,
You do their work, and they shall have good luck:
Are not you he?