[Dogs, man-wolves and full moon].
According to a study of the British Medical Journal in England the incidence of dog bites increases at the time of a full moon. The following article first passes the myths dealing with the werewolf. By changing from delinquent to patient during the Enlightenment the werewolf gets important to the history of medicine and psychiatry. From the anthropological point of view the so-called Lycorexia may be understood as an unconscious effort to undo evolution by transformation into beast. By the figure of the "Huckup" in recent variants concerning the werewolf subject a psychological turn of the legend is expressed.
Goddemeier
Christof
C
Freiburg, Germany.
D000818:Animals; D001733:Bites and Stings / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004285:Dogs; D006212:Hallucinations / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D016081:Moon; D019596:Wolves
Hunde, Mann-Wölfe und voller Mond.