As a logical continuation of mythology, it seems that the next step should be its origins. What is the mythological origin of lycanthropy? To read the other parts of this article, you can browse the following links:
The origin of the belief in lycanthropy and the transmutation of bodies is very wide. Many may be the reasons for this existence: psychological illnesses, other physical illnesses and hallucinations caused by different types. We will deal with all of them later and not in this part. In this part, we will try to know the reasons or causes of popular ideas. The need of primitive man to seek explanations for phenomena that he perceived with his senses, but of which he did not know its origin and the reasons, may have been one of the reasons for the creation of the lycanthrope myth. Segundo tells us in “ The Book of Werewolves ” , the sounds of storms with whistling winds ( howl ) strongly reminded primitive people of something known as howling ( howl ) of the wolf. For that reason, the monster of storms could be a wolf. One of the possible origins could be the clothing of the Nordic fishermen who went from town to town with animal skins on them. In popular belief it was established that these acquired qualities of the animal and were transformed into them. In Greek mythology , the transformation of people or gods into animals is very common. The transformations of the different Gods of Olympus into human currents or animals are not unknown to us. One of the in-person transformations of Zeus , collected at The Metamorphoses de Publio Ovid Nasón , is the one that leaves us one of the first records, if not the first, of a man transformed into a wolf and the which gives rise to the word lycanthropy . King Lycaon, who reigned in Arcadia, offended the King of the Gods of Olympus with his lack of faith and his atrocities. As divine punishment, Lycaon is transformed into a werewolf while trying to flee Zeus’s wrath through the fields . In our days, the Buddhist religion believe the reincarnation of people in different animals. The soul is the one that changes container. Some similarity can be found with Norse mythology . in which the person could “borrow” a foreign body for different purposes. Regarding Galician mythology, one of the first stories that I have been able to collect is Antonio de Torquemada , a 16th century writer and secretary to the Count of Benavente, who wrote:
[…] in the Kingdom of Galicia a man was found who was walking through the mountains hidden and from there he went out onto the roads covered in a wolf hide, and if he found some small unarmed waiters , matábales and fartábase to eat of them […].
Drawing of a wolf face
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