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<v Speaker 1>Unsolved mysteries. Out of deference to people who may still

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<v Speaker 1>be living. Character names in some of these true unsolved

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<v Speaker 1>mysteries have been changed. I could a tale unfold whose

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<v Speaker 1>lightest word would hallow up thy soul, praise thy young blood,

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<v Speaker 1>make thy two eyes, like stars start from their spheres,

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<v Speaker 1>thine noted incombined locks to part, and each particular hair

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<v Speaker 1>stand on. In So spoke the ghost of Hamlet's father.

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<v Speaker 1>But the words might well have been applied to the

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<v Speaker 1>horror of Benadebone, a group of up. The scene is

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<v Speaker 1>the heart of darkest Africa, a tiny, nameless village not

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<v Speaker 1>far from Benadevene. The village but a small clearing fighting

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<v Speaker 1>off the ever engulfing jungle. The jungle dark, mysterious, full

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<v Speaker 1>of fearful sounds, and fuller yet of fearsome shadows. Overhead,

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<v Speaker 1>the sky is lost beyond the locked and twisted branches

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<v Speaker 1>of pal trees, and below the black of knight is

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<v Speaker 1>pierced by the kil call of the lion, the sharpestical

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<v Speaker 1>laugh of the hyena, shuddering whimpering of a group of

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<v Speaker 1>natives shivering about the campfire. Three white men, their rifles

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<v Speaker 1>across their knees, stare out into the surrounding blackness. If

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<v Speaker 1>you want to know what I think, I think you

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<v Speaker 1>fellows are back given out here too long. You've let

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of native gossip get on your hide. Now

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<v Speaker 1>wait a minute, Jack, I haven't seen this thing.

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<v Speaker 2>Natives who have seen it say it's a black leopard.

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<v Speaker 2>I've only seen its tracks. I'm very enormous because than

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<v Speaker 2>any lions spore I've ever seen. I set a trap

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<v Speaker 2>for the brute last night, it didn't go off, and

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<v Speaker 2>this morning I went to take a look at it.

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<v Speaker 1>It had been set off by hand. One of the

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<v Speaker 1>natives probably set it off.

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<v Speaker 2>Do you think any one of the natives would come

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<v Speaker 2>out here after dark with almost a dozen of their

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<v Speaker 2>brothers lying back their mangles so that you can't tell

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<v Speaker 2>they were of our human beings. Not on your life.

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<v Speaker 1>Irrespective of what it is, we've got to kill it

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<v Speaker 1>for the natives will pack up and leave the village.

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<v Speaker 1>You can't convince them that it is known to cop

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<v Speaker 1>of the witch Doctor. But it's so silly, the idea

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<v Speaker 1>that just because they expelled the witch doctor, that he

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<v Speaker 1>should turn himself into a black leopard and come back

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<v Speaker 1>to kill them one by I it's silly.

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<v Speaker 2>Maybe it is silly, but look at it from their standpoint.

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<v Speaker 2>Old Na Kappa, who's seventy if he's a day, wants

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<v Speaker 2>to marry the village bell asks a spell on her.

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<v Speaker 1>In a week, she's dead. Jack will say that's coincidence.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, because he hasn't been out here as long as

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<v Speaker 2>we have. In any case, the villagers drive Old Na

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<v Speaker 2>Kappa out of the village. He curses them and the

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<v Speaker 2>village and tells them that he'll return in the form

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<v Speaker 2>of a wild beast and kill them one by one.

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<v Speaker 1>And the next night one of them is mauled by

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<v Speaker 1>a black panther, And the night after that, and after that,

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<v Speaker 1>and after that kill ten of them have been killed.

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<v Speaker 1>Laugh that off. Will you coincidence?

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<v Speaker 2>Listen? I'm willing to accept one or two as coincidence,

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<v Speaker 2>but ten, that's different.

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<v Speaker 1>Why not ten? If the root's got a taste for

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<v Speaker 1>human flesh, why not the whole village? If he's a

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<v Speaker 1>man eating panther, there's a subtle distinction between a panther

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<v Speaker 1>and a leopard. Leopards are not man eater.

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<v Speaker 2>And why only the men, since even the wild animal

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<v Speaker 2>those up the women are easier to get.

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<v Speaker 1>You're jittery, that's all. What you're not jittery?

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<v Speaker 2>Well, that's probably a wild pirate.

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<v Speaker 1>That's a pirate rot. Then you name it. Go on,

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<v Speaker 1>you've heard it twice. Name it. I can't. I never

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<v Speaker 1>heard anything like that. He come, not no copper? You

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<v Speaker 1>hear him a copper? Give which doctor? Call of death?

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<v Speaker 1>For that? That scream we heard with the witch doctor?

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<v Speaker 1>Heard what? Then she said, come on, come on time,

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<v Speaker 1>we're getting wait from fire. Yes, let hell boy, who

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<v Speaker 1>are played?

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<v Speaker 2>Follow me?

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<v Speaker 1>Quiet by fire, No move, no speak, only lie quiet,

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<v Speaker 1>sign may tell you no more. All right, follow follow me.

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<v Speaker 1>We'll get onto the trail. Forcing their way through the

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<v Speaker 1>dense underbrush, the three white men, followed closely by their

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<v Speaker 1>gun bearers, work their way to the animal trail. The

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<v Speaker 1>jungle has become strangely still at the horrifying shrieks of

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<v Speaker 1>the witch doctor, almost as though brute beasts. Though they were,

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<v Speaker 1>they voiced silent disapproval of anything so brutish. The party

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<v Speaker 1>pushes on their general direction toward Bennetteberne, suddenly holding up

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<v Speaker 1>his hand for silence. Frank stops then points to a

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<v Speaker 1>yawning black hole in the already black jungle, A pair

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<v Speaker 1>of gleaming eyes, a streak of glistening white below the

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<v Speaker 1>foam flecked jaws of a maddened animal. He half a lame.

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<v Speaker 1>You bill after me, and you jack take the brute

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<v Speaker 1>if he lives to right right? Okay again, it's gone,

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<v Speaker 1>and I know I did. I Come on, let's horry.

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<v Speaker 1>Look here the tracks coming here quick? What is it?

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<v Speaker 1>We did hit it? Look somebody's shot took effect? Why

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<v Speaker 1>that shot part of its jo away? Why come on?

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<v Speaker 1>It's up the village even the big snow there's something

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<v Speaker 1>not quite right. Beats me how the brute came at all?

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<v Speaker 1>And must before the hat dead. If it gets into

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<v Speaker 1>the compound, we'll have no difficulty finding, you know, we'll

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<v Speaker 1>be apt to comebound in a moment, asked nitche Here

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<v Speaker 1>here is time again? My gosh, he's right. Look head

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<v Speaker 1>of this way? What tune does the half dead animal

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<v Speaker 1>want to come this way? For? It has to cross

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<v Speaker 1>the whole link of the compound before it can reach

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<v Speaker 1>jungle again.

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<v Speaker 2>Make it easy enough, fellows. We're at the end of

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<v Speaker 2>the trail.

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<v Speaker 1>Bleeding pretty badly. Now the spoor is soaking. All right,

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<v Speaker 1>I'll go first, and no fool hardiness, no hasty shooting. Right. Look,

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<v Speaker 1>the trail leads right to your bungalow. I know it.

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<v Speaker 1>Stand back, I'm going first. He went into the living room.

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<v Speaker 1>Look out, when you go to the opening, this is

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<v Speaker 1>the Jack stops dead. His eyes start from his head.

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<v Speaker 1>The bloody paw marks crossed the barewood floor and end

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<v Speaker 1>before a huge oake chest. He points in stunner. It

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<v Speaker 1>isn't here, Yes, it is, got your forty five, breddy bill, Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>fasht tile on the left side of the chest. You

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<v Speaker 1>Jack in front, on tiptoe, and in silence. The three

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<v Speaker 1>men take their places, and these boys crouch in the

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<v Speaker 1>open doorway, taking his forty five in his left hand.

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<v Speaker 1>Frank slowly opens the heavy lid of the chest. A

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<v Speaker 1>gasp of horror escapes them incredulously. Jack leans farther forward

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<v Speaker 1>and stares into the chest, sprawled like some nightmarish monster,

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<v Speaker 1>half his jaw shot away, lies in the copper. The

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<v Speaker 1>witch doctor, the horror of Benadeble Dead. Just a moment,

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<v Speaker 1>we'll hear a solution to the mystery of the horror

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<v Speaker 1>of Benadeable Ladies and gentlemen. Inasmuch as any solution must

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<v Speaker 1>have necessity be supposition. Liberties of time, place, and character

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<v Speaker 1>have been taken with the solution for which you have

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<v Speaker 1>in waiting. The scene is Frank Hilton's bungalow. One hour later,

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<v Speaker 1>the natives have disposed of the horror, and the three

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<v Speaker 1>white men are seated at the table while Nietzsche the

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<v Speaker 1>native boy, served them something to steady their nerves. Well, Jack,

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<v Speaker 1>what have you to say now? Nothing. I want to

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<v Speaker 1>forget it, and you'll want not as long as you'll

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<v Speaker 1>live what it's impossible. I expect to wake up any

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<v Speaker 1>minute and find it's all a nightmare. Yes, and every

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<v Speaker 1>time you think of it, you'll do the same thing.

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<v Speaker 1>In spite of the fact that I was here, I

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<v Speaker 1>still don't below it's true, all.

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<v Speaker 2>Right, This isn't my first experience with one of the things. No,

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<v Speaker 2>we'll not bills either. You'll get used to it if

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<v Speaker 2>you'll live here long enough.

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<v Speaker 1>Not me. I'll take my chances elsewhere. What would you

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<v Speaker 1>call it? Never mind what I call it. Science calls

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<v Speaker 1>it my tanpape hience? Does science recognize what we just saw? Yes?

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<v Speaker 2>My canterpee is first in folklore. The liability of a

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<v Speaker 2>person to turn into an animal. And secondly in topology,

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<v Speaker 2>the belief of a person that he or she is

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<v Speaker 2>some sort of an animal.

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<v Speaker 1>Sort of insanity.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, the idea is this that the person who, through

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<v Speaker 2>mental maladjustment begins to think like an animal, will, when

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<v Speaker 2>removed from the company of human beings, actually turn into

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<v Speaker 2>an animal. What is impossible, humanly impossible, biologically impossible. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>how you look at this?

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<v Speaker 1>I've had the Encyclopedia Britannica, Yes, I had it copied.

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<v Speaker 1>As a pathological state, it is characterized by the patients

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<v Speaker 1>believe that he has been metamorphosed into an animal, and

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<v Speaker 1>is often accompanied by craving for strange articles of food,

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<v Speaker 1>including the flesh of human beings or corpses. But when

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<v Speaker 1>he leaves the neighborhood of a man, real metamorphosis may

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<v Speaker 1>be asserted by some sort of ideas. Isn't it ghastly?

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<v Speaker 2>My common name is werewolves, but wolves are by no

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<v Speaker 2>means the only animal, The Britannica states further, in Java,

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<v Speaker 2>we meet with a word tiger. In South America, the

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<v Speaker 2>word jaguar in Abyssinia generally a woman and in the

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<v Speaker 2>form of hyena or leopard.

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<v Speaker 1>And this is the world in which we live.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, Shakespeare expressed it admirably when he wrote, there are

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<v Speaker 2>more things in heaven wander for ratio than are dreamed

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<v Speaker 2>of in our philosophy. I.

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<v Speaker 1>SA