SHAPESHIFTERS IN FOLKLORE: BEYOND WEREWOLVES

Freaky Folklore

Eeriecast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 840 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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In this bonus episode of Freaky Folklore, host Carman Carrion ventures beyond the familiar werewolf to explore the diverse world of shapeshifting entities—from the seductive Selkies of Celtic seas and vengeful Werehyenas of Africa to the trickster Kitsune of Japan and terrifying Wendigo of the North American wilderness—revealing how transformation myths reflect our deepest fears about identity, control, and what it truly means to be human. Discover more TERRIFYING podcasts at http://eeriecast.com/ Follow Carman Carrion! https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/?hl=en https://twitter.com/CarmanCarrion Subscribe to Spotify! https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY Please Review Us on iTunes! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184 Music and sound effects used in the Freaky Folklore Podcast have or may have been provided/created by: CO.AG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA Myuu: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiSKnkKCKAQVxMUWpZQobuQ Jinglepunks: https://jinglepunks.com/ Epidemic Sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/ Kevin MacLeod: http://incompetech.com/ Dark Music: https://soundcloud.com/darknessprevailspodcast Soundstripe: https:// Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the year 2000.
0:02.0	Everyone, everywhere is having fun, except me.
0:06.0	On BBC Eye Player.
0:08.0	I worry you're growing up too fast.
0:10.0	Yeah, we can't be your little duck here forever, can I?
0:13.0	Inspired by a true story.
0:15.0	You walk out this house a boy, one day you'll come back.
0:17.0	When you do, you will be a man.
0:20.0	Oh, and urge your breath.
0:21.5	What it feels like for a girl. I wish I could look like you. Bebe, you can. Why don't you?
0:27.0	Watch on BBC Eye Player.
0:30.3	Welcome to a freaky folklore bonus episode where we explore the darker corners of human
0:36.2	imagination and bite-sized doses of dread.
0:39.3	I'm your host, Carmen Carion, and today we're peeling back the skin of transformation.
0:46.3	While werewolves may dominate popular culture's fascination with shape-shifting,
0:51.3	they represent only the tip of a vast iceberg of transformation folklore.
0:57.0	Across every continent and culture, humans have told stories of beings who slip between forms,
1:04.0	sometimes by choice, sometimes by curse, always reflecting our primal anxieties about the boundaries between civilization and
1:12.7	wildness, self and other, human and beast. This show proudly haunts the Eriecast Podcast
1:20.2	Network. For more nightmare fuel, visit eeriecast.com or follow us wherever you consume your podcasts.
1:29.3	Before we proceed, a content warning.
1:32.3	This episode contains references to cannibalism, assault, cultural displacement, and violence.
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