A Wodwo. - stock photo
Close-up of a Wodwo on a carved-stone, church font. The Wodwo was a popular wildman figure in the medieval period, and several feature on church fonts in Norfolk/Suffolk. Also spelt woodwose or wodewose, this mythical figure was represented as covered in hair, sometimes bearing a club, as here. Being a man of the wilderness, living in forests, they perhaps represent the antithesis of civilisation to the Medieval mind. Despite his wild, hairy body and club, he looks benign and unthreatening, gentle even.
![A Wodwo.](https://media.gettyimages.com/id/1468618139/photo/a-wodwo.jpg?s=1024x1024&w=gi&k=20&c=2mabxyQdz379uJCHzdl_HCWrSEuYF2IDJg8-y-6P8WE=)
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- Ancient,
- Art,
- Baptismal Font,
- Beard,
- Body Hair,
- Carving - Craft Product,
- Church,
- Close-up,
- Color Image,
- Fairy Tale,
- Forest,
- Freedom,
- Hairy,
- History,
- Ideas,
- Imagination,
- Ipswich - England,
- Medieval,
- Mythological Character,
- No People,
- Other,
- Paganism,
- Photography,
- Representing,
- Sculpture,
- Stone Material,
- Suffolk - England,
- UK,
- Uncultivated,
- Vertical,
- Woodland,