In April 2012, Hampshire Skeptics Society hosted my talk on werewolves, a talk which I had first given at QEDcon a month previously.
The werewolf is a common horror motif, but here we consider what people during the witch-hunt of sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe really meant when they accused someone of ‘lycanthropy’? It was an evening discussing films, history and analysis at which we asked who is worse – man or beast.
Part 1
Introduction
Werewolves in the media
Lycanthropy as a medical condition
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Part 2
Psychopaths as Lycanthropes
Lycanthropes as Witches
The historical context
Witch-hunting manuals
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Part 3
Lycanthropes as Witches – the Werewolves of Poligny
Lycanthropes as Witches – Giles Garnier
How do people change shape?
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Part 4
Lycanthropes as Witches – Peter Stubbe
Conclusions
Real wolves – the Anglian Wolf Society
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Credits
Many thanks to the following:
Hosted by
Hampshire Skeptics Society
With special thanks to
Crispian Jago
Dave Hughes
Assisted by
Linda Dewhurst
Camera
David Lee
Editor
Sam Seal