The Occult Book Club #6: The Book of Were-Wolves by Sabine Baring-Gould
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The Bear Skin of the Witches
The term berzerker also meant like bear of sark, with sark being sort of like your clothing. And what would happen is the bazerker would put on a bear's skin, and that bear's skin would help them transform into this super-human creature. They had some other sort of like thea, the mana, that they would eat and then be able to turn themselves into werewolves. You know, knives and swords couldn't penetrate their skin. It would just bounce right off of em. Gagety. But they would talk about these huge bear ins that they would wear. That mentality in our modern day, sophistic civilized society, is sourced back to this
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