In ancient Greek stories, a satyr is a spirit of the wild: a man from the waist up, with the legs, hooves, and often the horns or ears of a goat. They lived in woods and mountains, followed the wine-god Dionysus, and were famous for drinking, chasing, dancing, and playing a pipe. Artists usually draw them hairy and mischievous, not evil. Roman stories had a similar creature called a faun; English speakers sometimes mix the two, though actually a satyr is the Greek one. The word belongs to myth, painting, and poetry. Used of a real man, it is a rather literary and unkind jab, meaning he behaves in a lustful way — students can leave that use alone.