Unraveling the Mysteries of Werewolves: Origins and Legends 🐺

There’s a full moon on the rise, and so Charles and Cassie have bolted the doors, stocked up on silver bullets, and armed themselves with any knowledge on Werewolves they can find. Going all the way back to the Paleolithic, they search for signs of wolf men hiding among cave people, Proto-Indo Europeans, Ancient Greeks and Romans, the Norse, and the Medieval Irish, before investigating the infamous Wolf Trials from the 15th century onwards.

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Episode sources:

Wolves and Werewolves in Greece by Richard Buxton

Was there a taboo on Killing Wolves in Rome? By Mika Rissanen

The Werewolf in the Ancient World by Daniel Ogden

The Werewolf, the Witch and the Warlock and The Differentiated Werewolf by Willem de Blécourt

A Lycanthropy Reader: Werewolves in Western Culture, edited by Charlotte F. Otten

The Making of a Teen Wolf: Pierre de Lancre’s Confrontation with Jean Grenier by Jan Machielsen

Adam Douglas’s The Beast Within: A History of the Werewolf

Elmar Lorey’s webstie, elmar-lorey.de, particularly his list of werewolf trial accused and his article ‘How the Werewolf Came Among the Witches'

The Werewolf in Lore and Legend, by Montague Summers.

The Book of Werewolves, being an account of a terrible superstition, by the Reverend Sabine Baring Gould

Witches, Werewolves and Fairies: Shapeshifters and Astral Doubles in the Middle Ages, by Claude Lecouteaux