Much the Miller's Son was, in the tales of Robin Hood, one of his Merry Men. He appears in some of the oldest ballads, A Gest of Robyn Hode and Robin Hood and the Monk, as one of the company. Generally, he becomes an outlaw when he is caught poaching. This leads to Robin Hood's outlawry in many modern adaptations. In other tales, he was also known as Midge the Miller's Son. This is the name used by Howard Pyle in his Merry Adventures of Robin Hood. This has led to modern-day stories sometimes showing him as a female dressed as a man.