The charming gentleman on your left is not, apparently, Scarecrow from Batman Begins, but one of the subjects of National Geographic's recent photo-essay on terrifying, amazing-looking costumes still donned in various areas of Europe (basically all areas, just the remoter parts!) for fertility and hunt festivals. The pictures are completely extraordinary; Mallory hates when I reference The Mists of Avalon, but obviously these are all men one could look forward to being ceremonially deflowered…