The Origins of Monster Legends

There are a number of open questions about what exactly happened between neander talls and humans, to what extent anything happened. A lot of the origins of monster legends are probably in some process of dehumanizing people who are human. I mean, i think one of the most difficult things when you dig into the history ofof ideas about monsters is that they may often have their origins in ideas we would find quite repugnant. No matter how much you want to focus on these just being purely fictional beings in in another world, or in a world that is inspired, pure out of myths, ad and fairy tales, right?