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Werewolves and Strix-Witches

The Ancients

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Werewolf in the Ancient World?

The ancients viteralized the werewolf as one creature inside another, with sotoa leg, like a russian doll. But what is interesting is that they didn't have a consistent view as to which creature was the outside creature and which was the inside creature. A big gap in our evidence from after augustine, round about 400 a d until the twelfth century a d on get a wonderful flowering anew of werewolf stories.

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