Lycanthropy

Greek drama festivals, short comic plays featuring the bawdy antics of satyrs, mythical creatures half man and half goat” ("Satyr Plays" 1). Lycaea was a festival in honor of Zeus. It occurred at Mount Lycaea. It involved human sacrifice and lycanthropy, assuming the form of a wolf. (“Lycea” 1) The festival Eleusinia was for worshipping Demeter, goddess of agriculture. It consisted of games and contests. It happened every two years. Every second Eleusinia was more prominent, known as Great…

ones they love. And, humans on the other hand? Not so much. In the story, “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” by Karen Russell, Claudette, the narrator, through the so-called ‘stages of human development’ by adapting to human culture from lycanthropy , and soon acquired the ways of homo sapiens lifestyle and the many differences in the civilizations. This story is about her and the rest of the pack learning that their new environment is quite different, “This wasn’t like the woods,…

course of her stay at the home, she learns to conform with help from the sisters and The Jesuit Handbook on Lycanthropic Culture Shock. The name of the handbook tells a little about the she wolf and why she needs to change. Webster Definition of lycanthropy is a delusion that one has become a wolf. The sister Believe she is living a life full of delusion and misconception. Another word that describes her journey is Culture Shock. Webster Dictionary says that Culture Shock a feeling of…

changed werewolves from scary monsters to attractive men that happen to have a curse on them and nobody understands them. Another modern day view of them is some real cases of people claiming to actually be werewolves but it’s a mental illness called lycanthropy but there is also another diseases that has cause people to believe that they are turning into a werewolf and it’s called…

On the night of April 23rd, 2006, twelve year old Jasmine Richardson became an only child and an orphan when her entire family was murdered in cold blood. The bodies of husband Marc Richardson, aged 42, and wife Debra, 48, were found in the basement of their home, and the body of their son Jacob, aged 8, was discovered in his upstairs bedroom. Absent from the massacre was the couple 's eldest daughter, who would later be identified as Jasmine Richardson. For a time, authorities feared the girl…

realms of humanity and savagery is deconstructed with the intent of creating an overlap. One simply cannot exist without the other, and no better is this seen than in “Bisclavret,” the tale of man supposedly cursed with the malevolent affliction of lycanthropy. Still, Marie does not include this lay just for the sake of the supernatural. The title’s namesake is meant to work as a symbol, with his existence as neither a man nor a beast, but rather, as a tangible blend of the two in one being. Yet…

confiscates their notes on a regular basis. Sirius is known for his skill with a beater bat, and Professor Spinster swears that James is the best Chaser they’ve had since Montagu five years ago. Sirius falls asleep on James’s bed with well-worn books on lycanthropy tucked under his head because he has a bloody theory god damn it. James nods off at the foot of Sirius’s bed with Quidditch Through the Ages draped across his chest. It’s nice to be in a safe place and accepted by people who will…

Brandi Smith Dr. Alisa Clapp-Itnyre English L392 November 19, 2015 The Use of Mythology in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling is filled with hints toward Greek, medieval, and Biblical literature, as well as other folklore. Through her conscious use of past archetypes, Rowling displays an expansive intellect that readers many not notice during their first read-through of the series. Rowling uses her knowledge of these classics in the naming of the…

John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi and the anonymous The Revenger’s Tragedy are both typically cynical Jacobean revenge tragedies. They share in common imagery of flesh and anatomy, carrying with it connotations of the human body as a fragile, corporeal shell, and the assertion that human existence is either fundamentally corrupt or corrupted. In The Revenger’s Tragedy, the human forms of the degraded ducal family are likened to hollow vessels of sin by the aptly named revenger Vindice, this…