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Trevor Collins

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
12285 total appearances

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Werewolves | The History and Origins Behind These Legendary Folklore Creatures

I'm thinking I love science and technology and what it has afforded mankind to be able to do to explore the stars, to be able to travel the globe and shrink this world a little bit.

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Werewolves | The History and Origins Behind These Legendary Folklore Creatures

There's so much positivity that comes from it.

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Werewolves | The History and Origins Behind These Legendary Folklore Creatures

If witchcraft or magic, and it wasn't sinister, was real, dude, I would want to dabble.

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Werewolves | The History and Origins Behind These Legendary Folklore Creatures

I'd want to figure out what can this do for people kind.

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Werewolves | The History and Origins Behind These Legendary Folklore Creatures

I feel like the majority of people would want to do that.

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Werewolves | The History and Origins Behind These Legendary Folklore Creatures

Yeah.

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Werewolves | The History and Origins Behind These Legendary Folklore Creatures

Like, why not, you know?

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Werewolves | The History and Origins Behind These Legendary Folklore Creatures

Right.

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Werewolves | The History and Origins Behind These Legendary Folklore Creatures

If I wave a wand and dinner's made, I'm like, I'm living.

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Werewolves | The History and Origins Behind These Legendary Folklore Creatures

Yeah, I'm there with you.

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Werewolves | The History and Origins Behind These Legendary Folklore Creatures

Well, you know, ultimately, we're coming from a time where there's a lot of religious tensions, a lot of fears happening.

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Werewolves | The History and Origins Behind These Legendary Folklore Creatures

Suffice to say, that's pretty much the genesis of a lot of this little me just trying to be positive out here.

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Werewolves | The History and Origins Behind These Legendary Folklore Creatures

But moving on, as we kind of come to a close, I want to talk about the overall characteristics of a werewolf, what a modern werewolf looks like, and then what some kind of historians believe might be some of the grounded real things that might have been behind some of these otherwise terrifying stories.

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Werewolves | The History and Origins Behind These Legendary Folklore Creatures

Right.

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Werewolves | The History and Origins Behind These Legendary Folklore Creatures

illnesses and bacteriums and other conditions that would have terrified people that didn't know what they were, right?

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Werewolves | The History and Origins Behind These Legendary Folklore Creatures

Okay, so as folklore and stories have been passed through the cultures and generations, the characteristics that make up a werewolf are far from uniform as you might expect.

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Werewolves | The History and Origins Behind These Legendary Folklore Creatures

In fact, it's quite a broad term, but here are the overall characteristics that fall under a werewolf.

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Werewolves | The History and Origins Behind These Legendary Folklore Creatures

Transformation could be permanent, or it could be temporary.

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Werewolves | The History and Origins Behind These Legendary Folklore Creatures

Some say it's under a full moon, but not always.

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Werewolves | The History and Origins Behind These Legendary Folklore Creatures

A werewolf could be an animal embodiment of a human, so a person turning into a wolf, or maybe sometimes something else.