RE-RELEASE: Catholic Werewolves

Ancient History Fangirl

History, Society & Culture

4.5 • 518 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! ⁠ We’ve covered werewolves in the ancient world before—and their connection to the Berserker myth. But wait til you hear what happened to werewolf mythology when the Catholics got their hands on it. This episode is a wild ride, taking you from the ancient Greek and Roman werewolves to a Medieval monster tied to the mysteries of serial killing, mental illness, domestic abuse, and the paranoia of the Witch Trials. It turns out Catholic werewolves stalked a very dark, very violent landscape—and we are just itching to explore it. Join us. Sponsors and Advertising This podcast is a member of Airwave Media podcast network. Want to advertise on our show? Please direct advertising inquiries to advertising@airwavemedia.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.8	Werewolves for Jesus. I'm Jen McMenemy.
1:21.2	And I'm Jenny Williamson.
1:22.9	And this is medieval history fan girl, the seasonal edition.
1:30.5	Okay, it's not actually medieval history fan girl, it's still us, your favorite ancient history fangirls. But this week, actually,
1:36.8	for the next couple of weeks, we're doing something a little different. Normally, we don't need
1:41.6	the ancient world. But as Jenny was researching Reserker's, I couldn't
1:46.2	help myself. I kept texting here all this weird and little-known facts about werewolves of
1:51.3	the medieval period and into the 17th century. Yeah, because Rezorkers are sort of tied to
1:57.0	werewolves, but I tried to keep the Catholicism out of it, and Jen really wanted to put it back in.
2:02.9	Catholicism and in some areas just general Christianity. But yeah, and I was like, but how can you
2:08.7	leave this part out? And that part out. Like, we must talk about it. Because it wasn't about that,
2:13.2	Jen. No, and I actually really respect the work that you did to try and keep the Christian lens out, but I was like, but there's another side of this story, the wild Christian lens that we need to add on.
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