[UA] Lycanthropes

[Ysidro]

Gareth Hanrahan wrote:

> I think the word "Lycanthrope" still refers to the myth of the
> man-changing-into-a-wolf, full moon, hairy fangy thingies. Which don't
> exist.
> The term was appropriated by the Occult Underground to refer to the cases of
> animal/demon possession. As to how the scholars of the OU worked out that
> memories of a flying man were caused by demonic ghost birdies possessing
> people...the scholars of the OU have a lot of time on their hands.
> 

Obviously it was appropriated by the OU, that's not what I have a
problem with.  It's with the reality rewriting that goes on, there is no
chance to come up with the explanation for a lycanthrope except as a
flat out guess.

Although, now that I think about it, one *could* have happened to do
some "soul searching" type magic on somone and discovered something
unusual.

"Excuse me sir, do you realize you have a soul, a demon, and the spirit
of a bass?"

Ysidro

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Penn-Ohio Historical European Martial Arts Society
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