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Medieval Monsters, Ghosts & Werewolves

Gone Medieval

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The Haunting Presence of Folklore Creatures

Folklore creatures like ghosts, revenants, zombies, and werewolves often carry the essence of the areas they inhabit. Medieval werewolves, particularly in Ireland, were not always depicted as terrifying. According to medieval stories, there were families of genetic werewolves in Ireland who passed the curse down through generations. Some stories suggest werewolves pass on the curse to divest their family, thereby becoming a werewolf by being bitten. These werewolves could engage in conversations and were depicted as decent individuals in some accounts.

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Speaker 3
I love that. And I love the idea that they're invoking the areas and that you can almost travel with them. There's a sense that the areas haunt the story just as much as as the ghost does or just as much as the Revenant does. Speaking of which, we've touched upon what medieval ghosts were looked like, why they were there, what they wanted, the same with Revenant's zombies, as we might refer to them today. Tell me a little bit more
Speaker 1
about medieval werewolves. So the medieval world is littered with stories of werewolves too, and they're actually quite often not horrendously terrifying animals. I'm going to be cautious about how I say this in front of Anthony, I guess, but Ireland is full of werewolf stories. The
Speaker 3
Irish are notorious werewolves. Oh yeah, no, you don't need to be cautious. I've never heard one, but I believe you.
Speaker 1
There are, according to medieval stories, there are families of genetic werewolves in Ireland who hand this curse down through the generations. There are some stories in which the werewolves pass the curse onto other people, so they're looking to divest their family of this curse, so they'll look for a way to pass it onto other people. And that's maybe where you get the idea that if you're bitten by a werewolf, you become one, because they're looking to shift that curse onto somebody else. You quite often get werewolves that can talk to people, so they'll engage with people. We get some accounts from from monks who say, I met quite a nice werewolf. He was quite a decent guy.

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