The past, as L.P. Hartley says in his novel The Go-Between, is a foreign country, and to skit off that a bit we could say the long past is an entirely different world. It’s a world where there is no science, where folklore and folk psychology rule, and where the story is king. It is here that the werewolf was created, bought to life around campfires to help understand events that at the time were unexplainable.

It seems that the first stories of men turning into wolves emerged 100’s of years BC...