Servants of Evil or "God's Hounds"? The Complex History of Werewolves - Video

Werewolves walk among us ... at least, that's what was alleged in trials in Europe around 500 years ago, as people struggled to explain several shocking and brutal murders. That belief was carried forward to savage animal attacks in the 1700s and is even still a factor in some crimes in the modern day. But not all werewolves have been viewed as servants of the Devil ...

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:11 A God's Vengeance
2:38 Medieval Lit
4:02 The Werewolf Trials
6:24 The Goodest Boys
8:58 The Silver Bullet
11:38 History Meets Fantasy

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Partial list of sources:

Wikipedia
Werewolf Witch Trials
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werewolf_witch_trials

Hannah Winston, The Palm Beach Post
"Three years later, Austin Harrouf case still puzzles many"
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/courts/2019/08/15/three-years-later-austin-harrouff-case-still-puzzles-many/984663007/

Fritz Holznagel
The Ancient Origins of Werewolves
https://theconversation.com/the-ancient-origins-of-werewolves-104775

Ovid
Metamorphoses
https://archive.org/details/metamorphosestra00oviduoft/mode/2up

Tim Flight
12 "Real" Werewolf Cases Throughout History
https://historycollection.com/12-real-werewolf-cases-throughout-history/

On Lycanthropy and Whether Spirits Can Change Men Into Beasts
Jean Bodin
https://ia803003.us.archive.org/12/items/onthedemonmaniaofwitchesjeanbodin1580/On%20the%20Demon-Mania%20of%20Witches%2C%20Jean%20Bodin%20%281580%29.pdf

French Mediaeval Romances
Marie de France
Trans: Eugene Mason
https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/11417/pg11417-images.html

Old Theiss, A Livonian Werewolf
Carlo Ginzburg and Bruce Lincoln
https://press.uchicago.edu/sites/thiess/old_thiess_transcript.pdf

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