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You're listening to Episode 90 of Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World,

where we look at mysteries from the twin perspectives of faith and reason.

In this episode, we're talking about where wolves.

I'm Dom Bettenelli and joining me today is Jimmy Akin. Hi Jimmy. Howdy Dom.

Even a man who is pure and heart and says his prayers by night,

they become a wolf when the wolf bane blooms and the autumn moon is bright.

So says the 1941 law and shiny movie The Wolf Man.

People have believed in werewolves since time immemorial and there are countless tales of

human beings transforming into wolves, either physically or in terms of their behavior.

But what do we know about these accounts? Can humans really transform into wolves?

If not, where do we get the stories and what elements of truth might they contain?

And that's what we'll be talking about on this episode of Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World.

So Jimmy, where does the term werewolf come from?

The contemporary English term werewolf comes from the old English term werewolf.

It has two parts werea and wolf. The second part is obvious wolf means wolf.

It's the first part that we need to clarify. What does wereamine?

English is derived from an original language that scholars call Indo-European because it was used

by people who spread into India and Europe. It's the original basis of languages like English,

but it's also the basis of other languages like Latin. And in Indo-European, the word

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