...the end of the seventh century AD an archbishop had to make a law for the punishment of "anyone who goes about as a stag or a bull; that is making himself into a wild animal and dressing in the skin of an animal and putting on the heads of beasts." But for centuries the practice still went on, to the...

...Canterbury prohibited sacrifices and eating and drinking in heathen temples. He gave penance to anyone who "at the Kalends of January goes about as a stag or...bull; that is, making himself into a wild animal, and putting on the heads of beasts." St. Caesarius of Aries, also in the seventh century, complained that:...