Name a culture somewhere on Planet Earth and more than likely the
werewolf stalks its folklore, from African and Asian tribes all the way
up to the classic (and confusing) Altered Beast
of Sega Genesis. Even if there are no wolves on the continent, the
culture just substitutes the most ferocious mammalian carnivore they’ve
got, according to Caroline Taylor Stewart in her essay “The Origin of the Werewolf Superstition.”
So while the Germans and Brits and Native Americans have the werewolf
we know so well, in east Africa men transform into lions (in west Africa
it’s leopards), while the Arawak people of South America do their best
to avoid turning into jaguars.
Source: Wired
Source: Wired
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