In Western European folklore, growing hair on the palms of one’s hands is considered to be a sign of masturbation.
In Eastern European folklore, growing hair on the palms of one’s hands is considered to be a sign of werewolfism.
I can’t help but feel there’s ripe potential for misunderstanding there.
So the question becomes… does masturbation cause lycanthropy or does lycanthropy cause masturbation? Or are they so intertwined that you will get both simultaneously?
Your username in conjunction with the topic has reminded me of all those despairing testimonials by the directors of Victorian boarding schools to the effect that masturbation rates among the student body ran nearly to 100%, and now I have a vivid mental image of some sort of deranged Victorian boarding school sex-comedy-by-proxy in which the teaching staff is fighting a losing battle to convince the students that turning into wolves is bad for their health.
I was going to make a snarky comment about Dracula and the fact that Stoker was definitely thinking of both, but now I can’t because this is much funnier.
Tell me this is not the face of a man who’d try to fight an outbreak of lycanthropy with corn flakes.
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