Editing Wild man (section)

==Early modern representations==
[[File:Vischer Wilder Mann.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|left|"Wild Man", {{circa|1521}}/22, bronze by Paulus Vischer]]

The wild man was used as a symbol of [[mining]] in late medieval and Renaissance Germany. It appears in this context in the coats of arms of [[Naila]] and of [[Wildemann]]. The town of Wildemann in the [[Upper Harz]] was founded during 1529 by miners who, according to legend, met a wild man and wife when they ventured into the wilds of the [[Harz]] mountain range.

[[File:PetrusGonsalvus.jpg|upright=0.6|thumb|Pedro Gonzalez. Anon, {{circa|1580}}]]

[[Petrus Gonsalvus]] (born 1537) was referred to by Ulisse Aldrovandi as "the man of the woods" due to his condition, [[hypertrichosis]]. Some of his children were also afflicted. It is believed that his marriage to the lady Catherine inspired the fairy tale ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]''.

In [[Shakespeare]]'s ''[[The Winter's Tale]]'' (1611), the dance of twelve "Satyrs" at the rustic sheep-shearing (IV.iv), prepared by a servant's account:

{{quote|Masters, there is three carters, three shepherds, three neat-herds, three swine-herds, that have made themselves all men of hair, they call themselves Saltiers,<ref>''Sault'', "leap".</ref> and they have a dance which the wenches say is a gallimaufrey<ref>''Gallimaufrey'', "jumble, medley".</ref> of gambols...}}

The account conflates wild men and satyrs. Shakespeare may have been inspired by the episode of [[Ben Jonson]]'s [[masque]] ''[[Oberon, the Faery Prince]]'' (performed 1 January 1611), where the satyrs have "tawnie wrists" and "shaggy thighs"; they "run leaping and making antique action."<ref>J. H. P. Pafford, note at IV.iv.327f in ''The Winter's Tale'', The Arden Shakespeare, 1963.</ref>