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Licantropia nos percalços da História

2013; UNIVERSIDADE REGIONAL DO CARIRI; Volume: 2; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.47295/mgren.v2i1.440

2317-0433

Gustavo Marques De Sousa,

Literature, Culture, and Criticism

Lycanthropy is a word from the Greek and concerns the transformation, usually carried out in such a curse, a human into a wolf, giving rise to a legend that is speculated to be in many ways the popular imagination.The werewolf, the object of this research will be analyzed from the standpoint of studies on popular culture and how is found it in the historiography.Besides observing their characteristics and their behavior, taking as point of support the folklorist Câmara Cascudo, this research aims in the past, from Carlo Ginzburg, the landmark of the Inquisition to the demonization of wolves.Is investigated, based on Jean Delumeau, how these wolves acted and were hunted in the late Middle Ages, and on Robert Darntom are sought new interpretations of the narratives werewolf.Forgotten by God or not, the narratives of these animals can do mischief on account of his instincts have a place in time and history.