Jiang Li's question is too sharp, who knows why people only say werewolves? Maybe they're more afraid of wolves.

Yan Qiu was well-founded and calmly answered Jiang Li's question.

According to her, superstition was prevalent in ancient Europe, and in addition to wolves, cats, especially black cats, rams, owls, crows, and other animals were designated by the church and the people as the embodiment or slave of the devil.

Why is it only the story of werewolves?

First of all, from a biological point of view, there are no big cats in Europe, and people have not been attacked by large beasts such as lions, tigers, and leopards. The large beasts of prey native to Europe were bears and wolves, and the only threats to animal husbandry and personal safety in ancient Europe were roaming wolves.

Unlike bears, which attack humans when attacked, wolves are murderous and tend to attack humans and their livestock. When wolves attack sheep or reindeer herds, they often kill their own prey that they can't eat, which often causes great losses to the herders.

As for the position of animal husbandry in the agricultural economy of ancient Europe, it was far more important than cropping, and in northern and western Europe, the wild wolf was a pest that ruined the source of livelihood of the peasants, and it is conceivable that it was hated by Europeans.

An important characteristic of human beings is to demonize their enemies, and the wolf grandmother and the big bad wolf in various fairy tales are examples of the shadow left by wolves in people's hearts.

The Europeans also applied the same deceptive methods used by many oriental vixens to wolves, believing that werewolves could lure children into the jungle and kill them there.

Of course, if large cats had managed to settle on the continent by the end of the Ice Age, it is unclear whether there would have been monsters such as tiger people in European legends.

This is followed by the moon. The moon has a great impact on the environment and living things on Earth. The ancients have long observed that tidal phenomena are related to the success and absence of the moon, and the change of the moon phase also affects the habits of many different animals, especially nocturnal animals. Some animals reproduce during certain phases of the moon, while others hunt for food depending on the phases of the moon.

In ancient times, both Easterners and Westerners generally believed that the moon represented magic, so those creatures that were active during the full moon were often associated with magic and witchcraft in the human imagination.

In particular, wolves have a habit of howling at the moon, which makes Europeans believe that wolves are mysterious animals. The abnormal behavior of animals is also one of the origins of various legends, and there are rumors that werewolves will transform when the moon is full.

In our legends, Chang'e and the Jade Rabbit, including Wu Gang who cut down the laurel tree, also have the same effect.

Wolf children again. Since ancient times, animals have raised human abandoned babies in an endless stream, in ancient Roman legends there is a famous "she-wolf nursing baby" story, today Rome's city emblem pattern, is a she-wolf feeding two young boys.

Unfortunately, these beautiful legends did not work in the Middle Ages, when the Church ruled, because the wolf children were raised by wolves and behaved like wolves. When these poor human outcasts returned to the same group again, they were immediately identified as demons, born werewolves, and there they became the strongest evidence of the existence of werewolves.

Yan Qiu explained it well, but no matter how it was explained, it only revolved around a premise, and the werewolf was just a legend. All her descriptions are corroborated from the side, werewolves are human beings who demonize animals out of fear.

So for me, the origin of the werewolf legend is not very useful, because I have actually seen the werewolf, and in my heart it is no longer a legend, but a real one. And judging from the appearance of the werewolf, it is definitely not a human abandoned baby, but a wolf that has become a sperm.

The fat brother and I had similar thoughts, he said to Yan Qiu: "There is no wind and no waves, maybe there are true and false legends, after all, not everyone is lucky enough to have close contact with werewolves, but I still believe that if there is a legend, there must be someone who has witnessed it, but the legend has been added to the vinegar due to the accumulation of time, but it must have been saved at first." I saw the pattern on the lid of the magic well. ”

Obviously, our previous experience has completely changed Fat Brother's worldview, he now fully believes in myths and legends, and he has really thought about it, although myths and legends exist, but in the process of spreading, they have already changed.

I'm really not as good as Fat Brother in this regard, I only learned one thing from our experience, which is to save my life. The more I experience, the less courageous I become, not at all like the stunned blue before, not afraid of heaven and earth. Now I know that there are too many people, animals, environments, and events in this world that can kill me in a second. Reason keeps reminding me that I am far away from these mysterious things, but my personality pushes me to danger again and again, which is really tangled.

I joked with the fat brother: "You said that werewolves are real, then werewolves and vampires in the movie are mortal enemies, and vampires are also real?" Be careful to blot you dry. ”

The fat guy scratched his head and said, "Aren't vampires bat spirits?" I don't know. But we've seen bats eating human flesh. ”

The fat brother has also learned to stimulate people now, which pot is not opened, and he knows that I am afraid of the big bat in my heart, so he uses the big bat to disgust me. I still shudder when I think of the big bat in the cage that ate zombies, it was the heaviest shadow in my life, heavier than without my parents. Whenever someone mentions the word bat, I'm confused.

I glared at the fat guy, losing interest in teasing him.

At this time, Yan Qiu said: "The superstition of werewolves intensified, and at the end of the seventeenth century, there were rumors that werewolves would become blood-sucking zombies after death. At that time, rumors of vampires and their victims appeared in many parts of Europe. The vampire incident also reverberated strongly everywhere, even in Paris in Western Europe. However, at that time, Europeans had not yet invented the word vampire, and each had its own name. So the legend of vampires also came from werewolves. ”

Jiang Li said, "Sister Yanqiu, where did you learn this?" It's really interesting to study history, and that's what I said. If I can go to your school, I will definitely be a top student. ”

Yan Qiu said to Jiang Li: "This is all written down, and the magazine "Elegant Courier", which was very popular in the French court, also published a special issue for vampires in the October issue of 1694. However, it was not until the beginning of the eighteenth century that a large number of documents began to be published. ”

Xiaoxue saw that we were chatting happily, and also ran over and said, "What are you talking about?" It's so lively. ”

Because when Yan Qiu spoke, he was not honest in his hands, and he always broke my fingers underneath to play, drawing circles on my hands for a while, and poking them for a while. In order to keep her focused, I simply pressed her naughty hand, which now happened to be interlocking with her index fingers.

As soon as Xiaoxue's words fell, she saw our hands holding together. Now it's okay, the vinegar jar was directly overturned, and Xiaoxue simply sat on the fat brother's lap, looking at me with a reluctant smile on her face.

Because of the previous incident, I naturally had a weak heart, lowered my head to avoid her gaze, and didn't dare to look at each other, and at the same time easily opened Yan Qiu's hand, for fear of angering her and shaking out my troubles.

Xiaoxue still smiled generously and asked, "What are you talking about?" Tell me about it, it's boring. ”

The fat brother is now on pins and needles, you must know that the fat brother is still very brave in this regard, if this reaches the ears of Sister Hua, it is estimated that the fat brother will have to live in hell. But he didn't want to push Xiaoxue away directly, it seemed that he was very generous, but he wanted to be crooked. can only keep scratching his ears and cheeks, looking left and right, hoping that someone will help him out of the siege. I have to giggle vigorously, pretending not to care, it's embarrassing for him.

Jiang Li and Yan Qiu didn't see any problems, they were all natural. Jiang Li also said to Xiaoxue: "We are listening to Yan Qiu talk about the legends of werewolves and vampires, but we can grow knowledge." ”

Only Xiaoxue and I know what's going on, and Fat Brother is a victim. Xiaoxue did this on purpose, she must have wanted to make the fat brother angry with me, but I definitely wouldn't be angry, but I snickered in my heart, wanting to see what the fat brother would do next. If it's me, I don't do it endlessly, just like I did to Yan Qiu at the beginning, I just pretended to be a pervert and touched it, anyway, there was a car of people, and I was embarrassed that it must be a girl.

Naturally, the fat brother will not be as marketable as me, and he is not doing much, and his face has long been red. The fat brother who was anxious to ask for help suddenly said that he was strong!

This kind of trick of pointing at the sky and shouting was actually used by the fat brother, it seems that he is really poor in donkey skills. I'm even happier in my heart, thinking that the fat brother can't handle it now, shouldn't he be trapped by the goblin? Let Sister Hua know and break his legs.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the fat brother shouted like this, Xiaoxue immediately got up and looked out the window and was stunned. And everyone in the car stood up and looked out the window, some stared, some opened their mouths, as if they had seen something incredible.

I also casually turned my head to look, and this look at me could no longer be separated.