The world settles in for one more try after World War II with tension between two great power blocs - the United States and the Soviet Union and their allies. A period of nuclear threat in the 50s and early 60s settles into Cold War. Russia and China split over ideological differences. Third World liberation from control by imperialistic countries bring new players to power in Asia and Africa. Wars in Korea and Vietnam create turmoil within the United States.
1954 - Lindskog publishes a study on the African Leopard Men. (Lingskog, 1954, Noll, 1992, p 95)
1957 - I Was a Teenage Werewolf ties lycanthropy to teenage sexuality. (Douglas, 1992, pp 304-305)
1964 I. Illis proposes that Werewolves were sufferers of the disease porphyria in the article On Porphyria and the Aetiology of Werwolves in volume 57 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. (Otten, 1985, pp 140, 195-199)
1966 - Carlo Ginzburg publishedI Benandanti: Stregoneria e culti agrari tra Cinquecento e Seicento, later translated into The Night Battles. Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, in which he described the culture of the Benandante in Europe. In the book, he also discussed in some detail the trial of the Livonian Werewolf Theiss who was brought before the Inquisition on charges of lycanthropy, his claim that Werewolves were the servants of God, and the many strong parallels between Theiss' description of the Werewolves' work and that of the Italian Benandante. (Ginzburg, 1983)
1970 - African wereism is described in detail by Ruel in his study of the Banyang os the Cameroon in Africa (Ruel, 1970, Noll, 1992, p 95)