Thought in passing, shouldn’t they be called “straw people”, “straw persons” or (when it is true) “straw women”? Something to think about I guess.
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The ancient Romans used to throw the Argei in the Tiber on the Ides of May as a sacrifice to the pagan gods of old. The argei were quite literally straw men. How anatomically correct they were, I don’t know.