The Green Man pub and hotel sits near the foot of Horsingdon Hill, and is named after the folkloric figure said to haunt the nearby Horsingdon Woods.
Despite its mythic nature, there are still occasional accounts of casual ramblers encountering the hulking, shapeless figure of the Green Man in the Woods; it is even rumoured that, on the nights of certain festivals, the guardians of the Black Bowers make bloody sacrifice to this monstrous entity, which they consider to be the avatar of one of Those Who Wait - and who remains imprisoned somewhere in the deep geological strata far below Horsingdon Woods; it is, according to their doctrine, the spilling of fresh blood within the bounds of the Woods which can induce the earth to mutter with the consciousness of this unnameable being, revealing the time-worn secrets of things which should not be.
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