The Origin Of The Werewolf Legend...
Greek mythology testifies to the existence of werewolves. God Zeus once disguised himself as a traveller and sought for hospitality in the court of vicious Arcadian King Lycaon. The King recognized the god and tried to kill him. He served him human flesh. God Zeus caught the terrible trick and did not eat. Outraged, He destroyed the palace and condemned Lycaon to spend rest of his life as a wolf. This mythology originated the word Lycanthrope that is used to describe the werewolf phenomenon. The Greek lykos meaning wolf, and anthropos meaning man.
Common belief is that the werewolf legend originated from the countryside around German town Colongne and Bedburg in 1591. At that time Europe was under the dark shadow of ignorance and superstitions. Towns were underdeveloped and many people lived near woods. The fear of wolves was like a nightmare; nobody had ever seen one, but everybody knew they existed. Their attacks were so frequent that people even feared to travel from one place to another. Many mornings, the farmers and village folk would wake to find half-eaten human limbs on their fields. They tried their best to kill the creatures. However one day the inhabitants of the German town Colongne and Bedburg made a horrible discovery that altered the history of wolf killing.
Greek mythology testifies to the existence of werewolves. God Zeus once disguised himself as a traveller and sought for hospitality in the court of vicious Arcadian King Lycaon. The King recognized the god and tried to kill him. He served him human flesh. God Zeus caught the terrible trick and did not eat. Outraged, He destroyed the palace and condemned Lycaon to spend rest of his life as a wolf. This mythology originated the word Lycanthrope that is used to describe the werewolf phenomenon. The Greek lykos meaning wolf, and anthropos meaning man.
Common belief is that the werewolf legend originated from the countryside around German town Colongne and Bedburg in 1591. At that time Europe was under the dark shadow of ignorance and superstitions. Towns were underdeveloped and many people lived near woods. The fear of wolves was like a nightmare; nobody had ever seen one, but everybody knew they existed. Their attacks were so frequent that people even feared to travel from one place to another. Many mornings, the farmers and village folk would wake to find half-eaten human limbs on their fields. They tried their best to kill the creatures. However one day the inhabitants of the German town Colongne and Bedburg made a horrible discovery that altered the history of wolf killing.
