Woodwose Homilies default-HIDE as well as the use

as well as the use of magical herbs and words of power

stories of outsiders reflected in a mirror darkly

and possessed the power to reveal hidden treasure

Mercer's The Wicked Shall Decay gathers together a collection of obscure British magic featuring curses

Woodwose Homilies default-HIDE as well as the useAuthor: Daniel A. SchulkeIllustrations by Benjamin Vierling The Woodwose or Wuduwasa is an Anglo Saxon form of the archaic Wild man, an enigmatic figure clad and masked in leaves. Bearing a leafing club or staff, he makes his appearance at the margins of wilderness and civilization, dream and waking, plant and human. Embodying aspects both noble and barbarous, both he and the Wild women or Silvatic are the deified reservoirs of Nature as other.