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The Wicker Man This film explores the practices of paganism and a Christian policeman's attitudes to them when he visits Summerisle on the trail of a missing girl. He is disgusted by how the children are being educated to believe in nature, and a variety of gods and goddesses rather than the one true God whom he is deeply devoted to. He refuses to accept any of their customs, insulting their practices. The people explain to him that they are "heathens, perhaps, but not unenlightened." As the policeman investigates the island, he eventually learns that the girl has been sacrificed by the people of Summerisle, in the hope of pleasing the gods and wishing for a better harvest the following year. The practices that we see on the film - the scene in the school, the dancing round a fire to promote fertility, the beating of the apple trees, the hobby...

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