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Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio.

Hi, my name is Robert Lamb, and this is The Monster Fact, a short-form series from Stuff

to Blow Your Mind focusing on mythical creatures, ideas, and monsters in time. As we discussed last time, the origins of werewolf traditions may trace back to our prehistoric ancestors and the gradual domestication of the wild wolf, an act that may have made us better hunters and better watchers of the dark.

At different points in human history, we saw shades of the wolf in our own animal nature,

just as we also saw shades of human intelligence, cunning, and society in the ways of the wild wolf.

This is not, however, to say that the werewolf specifically is a universal concept.

Shapeshifters and animal human hybrids exist in virtually all human cultures, but the

werewolf, naturally, requires some familiarity with the species, Canis Lupus, particularly

the Eurasian wolf.

Now, I want to stress that, yes, the wolf's

range includes North America, and they certainly do factor into the rich traditions of various

indigenous North American tribes, but these traditions, including the off-sided skinwalkers, are

rather distinct from the werewolf concept as we know it today. We may come back to discussion on this topic later on, though.

Let's start with the term werewolf, or the Germanic, Werwolf.

This we can trace back to the writings of English Benedictine monk, Bishop Wolfstein,

and this would have been very early in the second millennium CE.

While most famous for being the last pre-conquest English bishop, his service began a mere four years prior to the Norman conquest of 1066,

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