Green Man (disambiguation)

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Green Man may refer to:

• Green Man, an ancient symbol of nature
• The Green Man, a ghost story by notable British author Kingsley Amis
• The Green Man (novel) (ISBN 0-89733-220-2)
• Green Man (album), the 1996 debut album from British singer Mark Owen
• Green Man (comics), a fictional comic book superhero appearing in DC Comics as a member of the Green Lantern Corps
• Green Man, the Qur'anic figure prominent for his initiation of Moses, Al Khidr
• The Green Man (artist), a German Drum and Bass artist
• The Green Man (1956 film), a 1956 film starring Alastair Sim as a jovial freelance assassin (Internet Movie Database: [1])
• The Green Man (1990 film), a 1990 British horror film about an alcoholic inn-keeper (Internet Movie Database: [2])
• Green Man, a song on the album October Rust by the band Type O Negative
• Green Man, a communication device used at police stations of the Garda Síochána in the Republic of Ireland. The device is used when stations are unmanned and the public can use them to communicate directly with the nearest manned station, similar to a hotline
• Green Man, alter ego of Jim in the television sitcom "According to Jim" who comes out on St. Patrick's Day to cause shenanigans
• Green Man, a character in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time fantasy series. In the books, the Green Man is Someshta, the last of the Nym
• The Green Man Press, comic-book illustrator Charles Vess' publishing company
• The Green Man Review, a non-commercial website devoted to reviews of books and other media, with an emphasis on fantasy, folklore and fairy tales [3]
• Green Man, the pub in the movie The Wicker Man
• Green Man Festival : a major folk music festival held in the United Kingdom.

Greenman may refer to:

• Josh Greenman, a Yale graduate and former speechwriter for Joe Lieberman and Rudy Giuliani
• Greenman, a song featured on XTC's album Apple Venus Volume 1
• Ike! Greenman, a Japanese television series

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The myth relating to the Green Man plays a key part in the books Lavondyss and The Hollowing by Robert Holdstock.

In the 1980 novel Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban, the main character finds a picture of a Green Man (which he calls "Greanvine") in the destroyed Canterbury after dreaming of one.