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The Wicker Man is set ablaze. Picture courtesy of St Fagan’s National History Museum.<\/p><\/div>\n

As darkness begins to fall this Halloween, visitors at the St Fagan\u2019s National Museum\u00a0 will be treated to a sight few have seen outside the cinema \u2013 the burning of a ghoulish wicker man.<\/p>\n

Each year, the staff and visitors at St Fagan\u2019s museum construct the figure out of chicken wire, straw and kindling. Harking back to Roman times, some believe the Gaul\u2019s practice of burning the wicker man, and those sacrificed inside it, were invented as Roman propaganda. Fortunately, this one is empty.
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\u201cThe wicker man ties back to Julius Caesar\u201d said Ian Daniel, educational interpreter at St Fagan\u2019s. \u201cThe image we have is always the wicker man standing up, but it could have been lying on its back. It\u2019s always depicted with a very human face. It\u2019s become a St Fagan\u2019s tradition to burn on Halloween, and I hope we\u2019ll be burning it next year!\u201d
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