The medieval English man in the Moon is not a face. He is a whole figure carrying a bundle of sticks, with a dog, banished there for gathering firewood on a Sunday.

There is a poem about him from around 1300 and a stained-glass window at Chaldon. Chaucer and Shakespeare both refer to the thornbush, and the Sabbath-breaking version is stitched onto a passage in Numbers about a man stoned for collecting sticks. Nobody sees the bundle now, which shows how much of a face in the Moon is what you have been told to look for.