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The most famous of these lunar pareidolia (the name for seeing a pattern where there isn’t one) is the man in the moon. The man in the moon is either the face or the body of a man, but usually the chief representation is of a face, such as the one that got a rocket in the eye in George Méliès’s early film masterpiece A Trip to the Moon (1902). However, sometimes a whole human figure is seen, usually carrying sticks or thorns. Shakespeare mentions this burden in A Midsummer Night’s Dream: “I, the man in the moon; this thorn-bush, my thorn-bush.”