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Wolf-Shaped Otherness: Finnish Werewolf Legends Reflecting Suspension from Human Community,f a witch in a wolf or bear shape is killed, the hunters recognize it to be a human because he has a belt with a knife under the fur skin. These stories reflect the magical practitioners’ ambiguous status in the society. They can be appreciated for their ability to find thieves, to ward off supernat

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Werewolves in Lithuanian Folklore Sources of the End of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,ged he could bring misfortune on their livestock In the sixteenth century a German traveller Johann David Wunderer, having crossed Samogitia, claimed that Samogitians could turn into wolves and bears when aided by the devil. Almost a century later, turning into wolf was recorded in a witch trial: th

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,The Werewolf as the Slavic and Germanic “Other”: Czech Werewolf Legends Between Oral and Popular Curelative scarcity when compared to neighbouring countries such as Poland or Slovakia, with special emphasis on the complicated relationship between oral and popular culture. Although literary mentions of werewolves in the Czech lands can be found as early as the thirteenth century, oral legends are

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Werewolves as Social Others: Contemporary Oral Narratives in Rural Bosnia and Herzegovina,a rule conceived as ‘a(chǎn)pparitions’ of the dead, either in human or animal (but never of a wolf!) shape. In this chapter, I argue that werewolf narratives cannot be explored separately from the overall social, religious and ethnic framework within which they thrive. I first show that personal experien

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When the , Is One of ,: Narrative Construction of Werewolf Identity in the Romanian Western Carpathlic and natural wolf, as expressed through religious and belief narratives: wolf might be considered as the wild potential of human nature, whose positive or negative behaviour is shown to be a question of choice. An interesting group of narratives speaks about a wolf who came near a hunter’s fire,

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A Strange Kind of Man Among Us: Beliefs and Narratives About Werewolves in Southern Italy,though it was regarded as a man—usually a person known to the teller and to the (older) listeners, identified by his name and surname and/or a nickname—more than as a bestial and/or wicked being. Indeed, the werewolf is generally described as a sick and suffering man, whose ‘wolf’s‘ nature is displa