Trevor Collins

And this is where you go from the, okay, yeah, wolves and shape-shifting is a very interesting fictional piece, but this story actually got codified into law in the 11th century.

And then there are also real stories that led to the witch trials across Europe.

And we'll talk about some of those specific stories as well.

But before we dive in, I just want to get your thoughts on any of the Norse piece or any of these other stories before we kind of close that chapter.

I think it's just very intricate and just seems like not like just spreads time, but also variation in which how the lore is told in the stories told.

And it's also a thing to know where it's not really quite the same, the different eras and the different cultures and places you go to.

So it's almost interesting because it's not you go so far back where you got to think there might not have been as much communication between like the different eras and different people, even if, you know, time periods cross courses and whatnot.

And so did everyone just come up with these tales of wolves and the variation of it seems like it.

Yeah, yeah.

Which is very interesting that everyone in different parts of the world is like, oh, let's tell a tale about this and a tale about that.

So I think that's the thing that's standing out to me the most.

It's just the variations with different cultures.

Yeah, it's like a very similar story told through and inspired by or shifted by, right?

The lens that it's being told through.

So you can see how in Norse mythology, it might take on this losing control of oneself because it does mesh well with this warrior mythos of the individuals, again, who would don these wolf pelts.

And so you see how their culture then puts a little bit, as you say, the herbs and spices of their experiences into it.

But also like we are focusing in across history on all of the human to wolf stories.

There are a lot of just in general magics and shapeshifting throughout stories in history.

I think the thing that blew my mind the most was the fact that it went all the way back to one of the oldest epic poems ever written or ever discovered on record.

yeah that's very interesting that it goes so far back from there it's just like one of the first pieces right yeah i'm sure there are poems told around that time maybe some a little earlier it says a lot and how important or dominant that story or that tale was like a part of one of the oldest poems that we know of