Lycanthropy: Forest demon captured Germany 1531 and said to inhabit forests round Salzburg & Hamburg. Perhaps witch wearing uncured skin - primitive rite which could have given rise to were-wolf legend. Woodcut of 1669 from edition of Gesner 'Historiae animalum'
Lycanthropy: Forest demon captured Germany 1531 and said to inhabit forests round Salzburg & Hamburg. Perhaps witch wearing uncured skin - primitive rite which could have given rise to were-wolf legend. Woodcut of 1669 from edition of Gesner 'Historiae animalum'
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