A Comparison Between Bisclarvet and Other Historic Werewolves.
Since the beginning of man the idea of lycanthropy, the ability to change from man to beast, has been a source of great interest (Webster). Marie de France took many of the folk tales and legends of werewolves and wove them together in "Bisclarvet". When comparing "Bisclarvet" to other historical werewolves one gets a sense of where Marie de France or the poet/s she heard the story got their inspiration. One also begins to see how a folk tale, such as "Bisclarvet" can evolve from cave paintings to the modern myth of werewolves that the world knows today.
In approximatley 25,000 BCE Franco-Cantabrian cave artists began "depicting ghostly creaters and a variety of two-legged beings with the heads of animals and birds" (Steiger xxiii). Ethnologist Ivar Lissner suggests in his book Man, God and Magic those Stone-Age artists were portraying:.
"intermediary beings who were stronger than common men and able to penetrate more deeply into the mysteries of fate, that unfathomable interrelationship between animals, men and gods." (Steiger xxiii).
Lissner's assumption of early humans" belief that "intermediary beings" had the capacity to supernaturally understand the incomprehensible, presents a stable cornerstone, upon which all werewolf legends quiet possibly had been formed. The first literary expression of a wolf-like being, the Epic of Gilgamesh, incorporates these beliefs.
The Epic of Gilgamesh was written in approximately 2000 BCE. The poem tells the story Gilgamesh a ruler of Babylon. Gilgamesh is depicted as the greatest king on Earth, however he is young and oppresses his people (Hooker). The god Anu responds to the peoples pleas for salvation by creating Enkidu, the wolf-like being. After a furious battle Enkidu concedes victory and becomes Gilgameshs" loyal servant and friend. Throughout the rest of the tale Enkidu and Gilgamesh enjoy many adventures and fight many a battle (Hooker).
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