Several years ago Charles Fréger set out to document the many costumes used all over Europe for pagan rituals, visiting 18 countries on his journey to pin down the archetype of the “Wild Man” that transcends any one culture. The pictures were then collected in a marvelous book called Wilder Mann. The costumes he found resemble something out of commedia dell’arte or Día de los Muertos, only far deeper and far stranger. They clearly represent the devil, billy goats, wild boars, and bizarre conflagrations thereof, using all manner of masks, straw, horns, pine twigs, antlers, bells, fur, and bones.
The link to buy the book – http://www.amazon.com/Charles-Frager-Wilder-Mann/dp/3868282955/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1454264349&sr=8-2&keywords=charles+wilder+mann
