People have believed in werewolves since time immemorial with tales of human beings transforming either physically or behaviorally. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore what we know of these accounts, where they come from, and whether there’s any truth to legends of lycanthropy.
Links for this episode:
- Ian Woodward’s book The Werewolf Delusion
- Baring-Gould & O’Donnell’s book Werewolves: The Definitive Guide: Werewolf History, Fiction, Mythology, Folklore, Legends, and Stories
- Kathleen McAuliffe’s book This Is Your Brain on Parasites
- Thomas Aquinas’s book On Evil
- Werewolf (Wikipedia)
- Greek vase showing the Trojan warrior Dolan wearing a wolfskin
- Viking Berserkers May Have Been High on Hallucinogenic Herbal Tea (Insensitive to Pain, Heightened Aggression)
- Peter Stumpp, the “Werewolf of Bedburg”
- Medical paper Lycanthrope: A Review
- Medical paper abstract Lycanthropy: Alive and Well in the Twentieth Century
- Hypertrichosis
- Curious Genetics of Werewolves (picture of boys)
- Petrus Gonsalvus
- Petrus Gonsalvus and Beauty and the Beast
- “On Porphyria and the Aetiology of Werewolves”
- Porphyria
- Rabies
- Aquinas’s statement in his commentary on the Sentences
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