WOLF QUEEN RETURN

lf skin. He orders them to put it on, and as soon as they do, wolf marks appear on his right hand. Having conquered his nature, he eats his own children, one by one, then devours the childr

ses the transformation is involuntary. But alongside this belief in involuntary metamorphosis ar

that of Gilles Garnier in Dole, 1573, there was clear evidence of the existence of a wolf, but none against the defendant; In all cases, with very few exceptions, the defendant was willing to confess and even detail the circumstances of the metamorphosis, which is one of the recurring themes of medieval witchcraft. Even when this fever of lycanthropy (both accusers and suspects) reached its zenith

entury werewolves were more destructive than "true wolves," their heterodoxy stemming from the claim by Ca

wolf had already become extinct, so this pious monarch was free (Demonologie, lib. iii. ) of accusing werewolves as victims of an illusion induced by an

de Loreto. A wolf watched over and defended Saint Edmund Martyr, King of England from wild beasts. Saint Odo, abbot of Cluny, ravaged by a pack of foxes, was released and escorted by a wolf (A. de Gubernatis, Zoological Mythology, 1872, vol. ii. p. 145). Most of the werewolves were innocent and God-fearing people, suffering from the spells of others, or simply destined for an unhappy fate, and who in wolf for

a (All angels, good and bad, have the power to transmute our bodies) was the phrase of Saint Thomas Aquinas. Saint Patrick transformed Vereticus, King of Wales, into a wolf; and Saint Natalius cursed an illustrious famil

sent Department of Lozère, in the Montagne Margeride of southern France, between 1764 and 1767. The beast was frequently described as a giant wolf, that attacked livestock and

n in the wet seasons, after very cold winters. Ergot poisoning often affects entire villages or at least poor parts of villages, causing hallucinations, mass hysteria and paranoia, as well as seizu

xplain why outbreaks of witchcraft hysteria and animal transformation legends exist throughout the world, even in places where ergot is absent. Hysteria and su

ver the body), or porphyria (an enzyme disorder with symptoms including hallucinations and paranoia) as an explanation for the

ch the affected person has the delusional belief that they are transform

ure-based cultures. The term "theranthropy" has been adopted to describe a spiritual concept in which t

oso, Coelho and Teófilo de Braga, in the Portuguese world, and Risco, Bouza-Brey and Prieto, in Galicia, have investigated the world of lycanthropy, and their almost unique contributions can be considered classic. . . The lack of studies in other regions does not

with Portugal, the Sierra de Gata, Las Hurdes, Tierra de Granadilla and Las Villuercas, natural spaces in which the livestock

this word is also generally used to talk about metamorphosis into any other animal. The voic

se and moaning, raging with blood and death, and, oh, wonder! , his clothes turned into hairy skin; the arms

cian-Portuguese lands, reserving the name of ribosomes for those people who on some occasion turned into donkeys. The l

from such a spell, it was necessary to bleed his right front paw. The same metamorphosis occurred in Guijo de Granadilla in the person of a cheerful young man and an excellent singer. As it

bride goes and grabs what she had in her hand and it was a jocino, who put his hand through the window and nailed the donkey's whole leg that made him the groo

hat they never buy a donkey between dusk and dawn on "San Juan's Day" without first bleeding a leg just in case.

one who bought it was left without a donkey and didn't realize the matter. Since they didn't know him, he ha

owls, cats, dogs and bulls. I have compiled myths and legends that speak of all these phenomena or details, the most numerous being those that allude to lyca