53: Werewolves: Psychology of Lycanthropy

Free The Rabbits

Joel Thomas

Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

In folklore, a werewolf, or occasionally lycanthrope, is an individual who can shapeshift into a wolf, or especially in modern film, a therianthropic hybrid wolf–humanlike creature, either purposely or after being placed under a curse or affliction, often a bite or the occasional scratch from another werewolf, with the transformations occurring on the night of a full moon. Did and do these mysterious changelings exist, or is it merely a form of madness of the human mind?

Hop into the history books with Joel as he looks at lycanthropy and its indelible mark on not only the ancient world but modern times as well. He starts with Sabine Baring-Gould's Book of Werewolves, one of the pillars of exploration into the myth of the werewolf. He explores the ancient world of Greek, Roman and Norse mythology where the lycanthrope seems to have originated. Lastly, he looks at the Biblical story of Nebuchadnezzar II and if he was truly just mad or something far more wolf-like.

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0:00.0	Merkel
0:02.3	Media
0:04.4	Media It's kind of simple, but it's not.
0:28.4	We try a million paths we lost, accolades without the cost.
0:33.4	Fighting, just a fight.
0:35.2	I'm exhausted.
0:37.0	Look over everything in the shadow
0:38.7	start looking at people like they don't matter
0:41.1	I'm waking up to the fact
0:44.0	more than a little bit shallow
0:45.8	I'm lost on this home
0:53.3	but I don't want to
0:55.5	lost out this home
1:01.0	because I'm just trying to breathe
1:06.0	around that's yeah breathe breathe the ravages yeah
1:12.6	breathe the ravids yeah Yeah
1:09.6	Yeah
1:11.6	Freedom
1:13.6	Free of Free the rabbits and this is really. How are all the rabbits? And this is really help the rabbits. It is really helped the show. doing out there today. First off, I want to say thank you to everyone who's been giving a five-star
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