Titlebook: Werewolf Legends; Willem de Blécourt,Mirjam Mencej Book 2023 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to S

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Legends and Beliefs About Werewolves Among the Eastern Slavs: Areal Characteristics of Motifs,two stems: . ‘wolf’?+?. ‘skin, hair’: Rus. ., Bel. ., Ukr. . etc..In all Slavic traditions . represents a man-werewolf, that is a man, who could transform on his own (a wizard) or was transformed by somebody else with the help of magic (by a wizard, a witch) into a wolf—preserving the possibility of

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,The Werewolf as the Slavic and Germanic “Other”: Czech Werewolf Legends Between Oral and Popular Cu. This demonic being, although present in Czech verbal folklore, became strongly (and wrongly) perceived as a non-Czech (i.e. Germanic) phenomenon, and thus never entered popular consciousness as strongly as other legendary characters such as . (water sprite), . (forest fairy), . (leshy) or . (devil

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When the , Is One of ,: Narrative Construction of Werewolf Identity in the Romanian Western Carpathss and syntagmatic coherence during the effective performance situations of telling stories about humans who have been turned into animals. Hence they have a supernatural, secondary nature added to their first natural status. My contribution to this volume explores figures of werewolves as configure

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Werewolves in the Western Alps,lopment of folkloric studies in the second half of the nineteenth century, beliefs in werewolves are considered to be widespread throughout most of the French territories, with the exception of the Alpine areas. This erroneous identification of the distribution of the narrative folklore of werewolve

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From Type to Cluster: Werewolf Legends in the Netherlands,narratives such as the Werewolf Husband—in Dutch language texts primarily known as the Werewolf Lover as girls sent the boy packing as soon as they found out his werewolf proclivities. This was not necessarily so with other werewolf legends, as well as notions about the werewolf as a bogeyman, form

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The Werewolf of Hull,spotted something ‘tall and hairy’ eating a dead dog. An article in . brought their peculiar experience to a wider audience and included those of another two witnesses. Later the same year a follow-up case revealed that a woman in her twenties also saw the beast from inside her car. A paranormal gro

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Book 2023 specific case studies, their chapters highlight the similarities and differences between werewolf narratives in different areas and attempt to explain them. The result of interaction between elite and popular culture, local and external influences, and nature and culture that lasted several centuri