Werewolves. Shapeshifters. The magical, fearsome, often unholy combination of man and beast has been showing up in stories in some form since we began telling each other stories. The earliest surviving written literature in existence, Gilgamesh, tells of Gilgamesh’s battle with a hairy, bestial man named Enkidu. (The two of them first fight, then become friends--and isn’t that just like men?1) That’s from 2000 B.C. An ancient Persian calendar from around the same time named one month Varkazan —literally, Month of the Wolf-Man2.
Every culture in the world has its tales of shapeshifters, beings able to change between human and animal forms—and of these shifters, the most common are the wolves. There are werewolf legends in Russia, Sweden, England, Germany, Greece, Italy-- throughout Europe and beyond.
I get that feeling with series I...
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Friday, 08 January 2010 13:45 | 
Written by Eileen Wilks | 
Werewolves. Shapeshifters. The magical, fearsome, often unholy combination of man and beast has been showing up in stories in some form since we began telling each other stories. The earliest surviving written literature in existence, Gilgamesh, tells of Gilgamesh’s battle with a hairy, bestial man named Enkidu. (The two of them first fight, then become friends--and isn’t that just like men?1) That’s from 2000 B.C. An ancient Persian calendar from around the same time named one month Varkazan —literally, Month of the Wolf-Man2.
Eileen traveled all around Midland to bring you photos of some major scenes in her novella 