Wicker man since 1986, an effigy of a man has been burned during Burning Man, a week-long annual event currently being held in Black Rock Desert, Nevada. Wicker man A wicker man was a large wicker statue reportedly used by the ancient Druids (priests of Celtic paganism) for sacrifice by burning it in effigy. The main evidence for this practice is one sentence in Julius Caesar's "Commentary on the Gallic war", which modern scholarship has linked to an earlier writer, Poseidonius. Modern archaeological research has not yielded much evidence of human sacrifice among the Celts, and the ancient Greco-Roman sources are now
Money burning which Aristippus had when he did so." Since around 2015 the UK has experienced a surge of interest in money burning. This has been noted in both the book 'The Mysterium' and in a 'Kindred Spirit' article that is reprinted in International Times. There is also a UK based magazine 'Burning Issue' that claims to be "for money burners and other destroyers of currency". An annual Mass Burn Event - where people are invited to burn money - is held at the Cockpit Theatre in London every autumn. Publicly burning money can be an act of protest or a kind