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
World Ski and Snowboard Festival World Ski and Snowboard Festival The World Ski & Snowboard Festival (WSSF) is an annual celebration of snowsports, music, arts and mountain culture. The Festival is held each April in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada and has been recognized as the largest annual winter sports and music festival in North America. It has been called the snowsport industry's version of Burning Man. The World Ski & Snowboard Festival was created by Doug Perry in 1996. The festival was developed in a partnership between Perry, Tourism Whistler and Whistler/Blackcomb. In 2006 the ownership of the festival was consolidated in a joint acquisition