Can Lycanthropy & Big Foot Sightings Be One and the Same?

[Atrayo]

Hi All,

Is it possible that purported sightings of Big Foot type primates in Europe during the middle ages and so forth. Have actually created the mythos of what we define as Lycanthropy today.

ly·can·thro·py

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–noun <TABLE class=luna-Ent><TBODY><TR><TD class=dn vAlign=top>1.</TD><TD vAlign=top>a delusion in which one imagines oneself to be a wolf or other wild animal. </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE class=luna-Ent><TBODY><TR><TD class=dn vAlign=top>2.</TD><TD vAlign=top>the supposed or fabled assumption of the appearance of a wolf by a human being. </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>



<HR class=ety>[Origin: 1575–85; < Gk lykanthrōpía. See lycanthrope, -y<SUP>3</SUP>

] (Source: Dictionary.com)

Where poorly educated peoples in Europe fearful of paganism conjured up the mythos of the Wolfman. As some sort of curse / disease that one becomes infected from the bite of another lycanthrop. Similar to the legends of Vampirism where blood infection is the mode of transformation.

So can the legends of Wolfman and other forms of lycanthropy be sparked from "big foot" encounters of yore that were misidentified.

Is it likely?

 

[Aaron LeClair]

Why someone would jump to that conclusion instead of just saying it's an animal is puzzling to me.


There's a strange disorder where people grow hair all over their bodies. This may have been what caused werewolf lore. Or it's just made up fiction. Humans need little help making up stuff it seems.

Having said that. I know many people who turn into jackasses all the time. Not me of course.

 

[hopeful skeptic]

I know many people who turn into jackasses all the time. Not me of course.

I attempt to do so as often as possible. I bray with the best of them.

Lycanthropy refers to a psychological disorder, not a physical one. Nature plays all kinds of games with genetic mutations, so there's no good way of knowing with certainty where werewolf stories originally arose. Makes for some fun reading, though.

When I lived in the old Soviet Union for a year, I can assure you that there were plenty of ladies walking about who make Lon Chaney, Jr.'s werewolf look like a supermodel with a "Brazilian," if you know what I mean .

 

[Farside]

the psychological disorder can bring about physical stuff, but some cases its been physical disorders that bring about psychological disorders, we know that a physical action/thing can make a psychological disorder, or a psychological can bring means about physical means(this is where they thing stigmata falls into) but as far as some one becoming Bigfoot on a full moon is a little far for me. I can take a lot of theories but this one is a little far.

 

[DBTrek]

Perhaps the legends are correct and the bigfoot enthusiasts are wrong. Maybe those who claim to see bigfoot are actually seeing werewolves.

That's why we never find a Bigfoot corpse. They all shape shift back to their human forms upon death.

ARRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

<chuckle>

-DBTrek