Trevor Collins

You talk a little bit about

how a made up other child, little Timmy Tommy, went wandering a little too far.

And so you play into the fear for the sake of a lesson, you know, but all of this kind of, you can then see the storytelling crescendo into a greater tale of werewolves, you know, and curses.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, you even have just the simpler kids version, right?

It was the three little pigs.

Three little pigs, boy who cried wolf.

Boy who cried wolf.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

It's out there.

Mother Goose, she knows what's up.

So in Slavic cultures, the werewolf, very interestingly and very akin to Underworld, is often associated with what's called the revenant.

It's kind of like a vampire, slight differences, but these creatures were thought to be shapeshifters who could transform into terrifying wolves while living, and then when they would die, they would rise from the dead with a continued bloodlust.

Again, similar to vampires, but instead of feeding and very slight delineations, go check out our vampire episode, but yeah, very, very much associated.

So they live as a wolf, and then when they die, cross over into like a vampire-esque?

Similar.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Almost like a thrall in its own way.

That's interesting.