The Therian Timeline

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)