Old Stinker: English Eerie, Ecology, and the Yorkshire Werewolf

In 2016, tabloid newspapers were telling tales of a werewolf-like creature sighted in Yorkshire. Variously known as 'Old Stinker' and 'The Beast Of Barmston Drain,' this creature seems to have sprung from the misty centuries of English werewolf lore. Or has it? On this episode, Cian sinks a Black Sheep ale while looking into: -what is the real history or werewolf lore in England? -is lycanthropy a curse, or something you do yourself? -links between werewolfism and early modern witch trials -21st century tabloid newspaper legends -Re-enchanting the landscape and 'English Eerie' -Extinction and rewilding SOURCES: Wolf howl by Betchkal https://freesound.org/people/betchkal/sounds/500646/ The Book Of Were-Wolves, Sabine Baring-Gould, 1865 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5324 Haunted Ireland, Tarquin Blake, 2014 https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=haunted+ireland+tarquin+blake&addon=chrome&addonversion=3.2.0&method=topbar MALEFICIUM: Wichcraft and Witch-Hunting In The West, Gordon Blake, 2017 https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30240646141&searchurl=kn%3DMaleficium%26sortby%3D3 Three Men Seeking Monsters, Nick Redfern, 2004 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/107189.Three_Men_Seeking_Monsters?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=UZBrhYEoza&rank=1 Hull Daily Mail Article https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/beast-barmston-drain-seen-killing-73245 AnomalyInfo.com article by Garth Haslam http://anomalyinfo.com/Stories/2016-september-1-werewolf-encountered-halsham-england Wolves In The Wolds: Late Capitalism, the English Eerie and the Wyrd Case Of Old Stinker, Sam M George https://www.academia.edu/33708017/Wolves_in_the_Wolds_Late_Capitalism_the_English_Eerie_and_the_Wyrd_Case_of_Old_Stinker_the_Hull_Werewolf