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Welcome to unexplained Extra with me, Richard McClain Smith,

where for the weeks in between episodes who look at stories and ideas that for one reason or

other didn't make it into the previous show. In last week's episode, an American werewolf in

America, we covered the intriguing tale of the beast of Brave Road, a strange apparent dog-like

humanoid that is said to stalk a quiet stretch of road just outside of Elkhorn in Wisconsin, USA.

Linda Godfrey, who first brought the tale to the world, was reluctant to use the term werewolf

to describe the supposed creature since she considered it to be more of a cryptid than a human wolf

hybrid. The clue is in the name. The term werewolf in most languages is comprised of the cognate of

man and wolf, where is the old eutonic for man and wolf is well. Wolf. The Greek term lecanthropus

from which is derived the term like canthropy. The psychiatric disorder in which an individual

believes they are a wolf is likewise taken from the Greek words for wolf and man.

Some argue that the notion of a werewolf was first explored in the ancient poem The Epic of Gilgamesh

from 2100 BCE, in which the titular Gilgamesh spurns a woman, after learning that she'd previously

turned a lover into a wolf. However, generally speaking, the idea of the werewolf was born from much

darker beginnings, much of it to do with cannibalism. From ancient Greek mythology comes the story of

Lycaeon, one of the first kings of Arcadia. In an effort to gain favor from the god Zeus,

Lycaeon made a series of increasingly extreme offerings in his honor, culminating in the sacrificing

of people, a practice that by then had been long rejected by the gods. When Zeus decided to visit

Lycaeon in disguise to try and uncover the truth, he was invited to participate in a banquet that

included human flesh. In anger and disgust, Zeus turned Lycaeon and his son into wolves as a

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