It's spooky season!!!!! FINALLY! Jen and Jackie dedicate this month to paranormal romance lovers everywhere...because it's WEREWOLF MONTH!

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Content Warning: Discussion of mental health and historical mental health diagnoses. Please contact a mental health professional for an actual medical diagnosis.

EDIT- In this episode Jackie had said that wolf hunting was made illegal in the 19th and 20th centuries in the US, but this was not the case. Wolf hunting was actually encouraged throughout US history, and at times bounties were even awarded to hunters.

Terms:

• Lycanthropy - Once believed to be a supernatural condition in which men actually assumed the physical form of werewolves or other animals, now used as a clinical diagnosis for a mental disorder
• Shifter - Short for Shapeshifter, refers to a creature that shifts between a human and non-human (usually animal) form
• Omegaverse- a subgenre of speculative erotic fiction, and originally a subgenre of erotic slash fan fiction. Stories in the genre are premised on societies wherein humans are divided into a dominance hierarchy of dominant "alphas", neutral "betas", and submissive "omegas"
• Clinical lycanthropy - Clinical lycanthropy is a rare form of reverse inter-metamorphosis wherein patients believe that they are undergoing transformation or have transformed into a non-human animal.
• Hypertrichosis - excessive hair growth over and above the normal for the age, sex and race of an individual
• Lunacy- From Roman "Luna" meaning the moon, related to the goddess of the moon, Luna/Selene
• from late 13th century "lunatic" meaning "affected with periodic insanity dependent on the changes of the moon;" in turn from Old French lunatique "insane," or directly from Late Latin lunaticus "moon-struck," from Latin luna "moon" 
• Dionysian Mysteries - a cultish celebration devoted to the celebration of the god Dionysus
• See this thesis for classical researched-based information
• Bacchanalia/Bacchanalian rites - Greco-Roman religion, any of the several festivals of Bacchus (Dionysus), the wine god

Authors/books we mention:

• Cynthia Pelayo
• Rachel Harrison
• Wilderness, Dennis Danvers
• The Werewolf of Bamberg (Pötzsch)

Articles/sources we read:

• Epic of Gilgamesh
• Lycaon
• Saga of the Volsungs
• The Werewolf of Bedburg
• Peter the Wild Boy
• "Werewolf Fiction" (Wikipedia)
• "Werewolves in Literature (Delahoyde, n.d.)
• "The Ancient Origins of Werewolves" (Koosmen, 2018)
• "A literary History of Werewolves" (Thomas, 2019)
• "The Modern Literary Werewolf: A Critical Study of Mutale Motif" (Hatter, 2013)
• "Skin-changers: Werewolves in the Medieval and Modern Imagination" (Fahey, 2017)
• "You Sexy Beast: Our Fascination With Werewolves" (NPR, 2009)
• "Urban Fantasy 101: A Quick Guide to Shifter Romances" (Stitch, 2018)
• "Werewolf Legends" (History.com, 2017)
• "Hypertrichosis" (Ngan, 2016)
• "Real-Life Werewolves: Psychiatry Re-Examines Rare Delusion" (Gholipour, 2014)
• "Urban Fantasy 101" (Stitch, 2017)
• "Blackfoot Legends - The Wolf Man" (Grinnell, n.d.)
• "Native American Werewolves" (werewolves.com)
• "The Terror of the Skinwalker" (River City Ghosts, n.d.)
• Naked Came the Wolf" (British Library, 2013)
• "Deep dive: The mythology of full moons" (Donaldson, 2018)
• "What is it about a full moon that makes people do crazy things and commit crimes?' (Baird, 2012)
• "Here Is What Happens To Werewolves On The Moon, According To Geophysics" (Andrews, 2018)
• "Lunacy" (Gabour, 2012)