Männerbund
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The Männerbund refers to the theoretical Proto-Indo-European brotherhood of warriors in which unmarried young males served for several years, as a rite of passage into manhood, before their full integ
Early Indo-European migrations from the Pontic–Caspian steppe spread Yamnaya Steppe pastoralist ancestry and Indo-European languages across large parts of Eurasia.
Warrior of Hirschlanden Landesmuseum Württemberg Stuttgart Germany 2017
Werewolf
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In folklore, a werewolf, or occasionally lycanthrope, is an individual who can shapeshift into a wolf or therianthropic hybrid wolf–humanlike creature, either voluntarily or involuntarily due to a cur
Männerbund
…equine' name, reflecting their new status as adult warriors fighting openly by chariot or on horseback. Loma also notes that the folk legend of the werewolf ('man-wolf'), documented for the first time by Herodotus when reporting on the Neuri, might be reminiscent of nocturnal raids carried out by disguised…
Dolon wearing a wolfskin. Attic red-figure vase, c. 460 BC.
Zeus turning Lycaon into a wolf, engraving by Hendrik Goltzius.
A Vendel period depiction of a warrior wearing a wolf skin (Tierkrieger).
A German woodcut from 1722