Editing Faun (section)

==Origins==
[[Image:NMS_Mackie_Nymph_and_Faun.JPG|thumb|upright|''Nymph and Faun'' (cast in lead) in the [[National Museum of Scotland]], [[Edinburgh]]]]
Romans believed fauns stirred fear in men traveling in lonely, faraway or wild places. They were also capable of guiding men in need, as in the fable of [[The Satyr and the Traveller]], in the title of which Latin authors substituted the word ''Faunus''. Fauns and [[satyr]]s were originally quite different creatures: whereas late-period fauns are half-man and half-goat, satyrs originally were depicted as stocky, hairy, ugly dwarves or [[woodwose]]s, with the ears and tails of horses. Satyrs also were more woman-loving than fauns, and fauns were rather foolish where satyrs tended to be sly.

[[Ancient Rome|Ancient Roman]] mythological belief included a god named [[Faunus]] often associated with bewitched woods, and conflated with the Greek god [[Pan (god)|Pan]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Phaunos |department=Greek Mythology |website=Theoi.com |url=http://www.theoi.com/Georgikos/Phaunos.html |access-date=2014-06-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=faun (mythical character) |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/faun |access-date=2017-09-04 |lang=en}}</ref> and a goddess named [[Fauna (goddess)|Fauna]] who were [[goat people]].