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
The Burning Man (The Twilight Zone) The Burning Man (The Twilight Zone) "The Burning Man" is the second segment of the eighth episode from the first season (1985–86) of the television series "The Twilight Zone". It is based on Ray Bradbury's short story "The Burning Man", first published in his collection "Long After Midnight" (1976). On a hot summer day, a woman and her nephew are driving along a dusty, country road. The story takes place in Kansas in 1936 based on the tag on the car. They soon come upon an old man in raggedy clothes who hails them to stop. They pick him up