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Speaker 1: You're listening to you an Airwave Media podcast. Hi everybody,

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Speaker 1: and welcome back to Hood and What Now the history

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Speaker 1: podcast that is not your history class with me your

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Speaker 1: exuberant host, Katie Charlewood, potato fritter lover and reader of books. Well,

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Speaker 1: as you're listening to this, I am currently in Scotland

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Speaker 1: on a secret project that I can't tell you about

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Speaker 1: it super secret. Oh we're off on a secret mission,

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Speaker 1: a totally secret plot. Yes, that's fun. So this is

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Speaker 1: actually prerecorded before I travel, just so that I actually

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Speaker 1: get it done in time, because if I have to

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Speaker 1: try and do this over there, because I'm going to

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Speaker 1: be so busy, I don't know if I'm going to

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Speaker 1: have the time with the option. But that's okay because

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Speaker 1: because I'm here right now, and oh my god, I

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Speaker 1: actually really cannot wait to have a potato fritter. Every

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Speaker 1: dreaming of potato fritters, like with lots of salt and

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Speaker 1: ventnit car just oh you have no idea. I'm just

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Speaker 1: like salivating it the idea of it, because I haven't

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Speaker 1: had one in so long, and like because they just

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Speaker 1: don't do them in Ireland. Oh just like we chip

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Speaker 1: our art. It's gonna be so good. But before I

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Speaker 1: get into anything else, I want to say thank you,

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Speaker 1: thank you, thank you to everyone who has been writing

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Speaker 1: and reviewing on Apple podcasts. You have no idea the

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Speaker 1: all the difference. And I genuinely want to thank you. No,

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Speaker 1: but seriously, though, I really want a potato for Oh

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Speaker 1: and speaking of people doing awesome things, I got an

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Speaker 1: item from my wish list, my Amazon wish lists sent

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Speaker 1: to me, and it's a book. It's a book I

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Speaker 1: wanted to read for quite a while actually, but I

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Speaker 1: haven't bought any books that have not been specific to

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Speaker 1: whatever I'm researching, just because funds are low. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: so somebody sent me a book but they didn't leave

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Speaker 1: a note, and because normally when someone sends a gift

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Speaker 1: be able to thank them. I want to say thank

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Speaker 1: you for the lovely gift, you know, I just I

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Speaker 1: just I just think it's so anytime anyone sends me anything,

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Speaker 1: I am so full of like joy, you know, for

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Speaker 1: someone to think of me and go, I'm going to

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Speaker 1: get that person something. You know, It's just it's so

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Speaker 1: kind and it's so lovely. I just, oh, it is

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Speaker 1: just so nice. You know. I don't know how to

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Speaker 1: explain it, but anyway, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, great,

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Speaker 1: your jibber jabber in fact me, in fact you I will.

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Speaker 1: But first we get to get our source on. So

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Speaker 1: because this week we are talking about werewolves, yes, so

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Speaker 1: because it is this spooky month, and we started off

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Speaker 1: with the Vladim Palar. Then we had Tea the cannibal.

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Speaker 1: So we've had a vampire and a cannibal and now

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Speaker 1: we're onto a werewolf. So yes, the werewolf of Begburg.

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Speaker 1: So we have as our sources Mysterious Monsters by Daniel

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Speaker 1: Farson and Angus Hall, Human Monsters and Illustrated Encyclopedia of

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Speaker 1: the World's Most Vicious Murders by David Everett, Witchcraft, Licanthropy,

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Speaker 1: Drugs and Disease, An Anthropological study of the European witch

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Speaker 1: Hunts by Homo and sid Ke. I've probably pronounced that wrong.

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Speaker 1: And we also have a true discourse declaring the damnable

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Speaker 1: life of death of one Stub Peter a most wicked sorcerer,

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Speaker 1: and that's like the original sort of translation of the

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Speaker 1: tale from fifteen ninety. So let's talk about Peter Stump,

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Speaker 1: also known as Peter Stubb or Peter Stump because you know,

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Speaker 1: way back when spelling wasn't quite as consistent as is now,

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna call him Stump because that's easier for

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Speaker 1: me to say. Peter Stump was born somewhere at some time,

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Speaker 1: because he is a farmer in Germany in the sixteenth century,

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Speaker 1: and we know, sweet fuck call about the everyman in

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Speaker 1: the past. So most likely he was born in or

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Speaker 1: near Bedburg in Rhineland, and and what we now know

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Speaker 1: is Germany sometime in the fifteen hundreds. All we know

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Speaker 1: Let's not forget the plague is happening. But stump stub stump. Well,

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Speaker 1: actually that being said, Peter had a stump. Actually his

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Speaker 1: good to see that nothing's really changed in nearly five

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Speaker 1: get kind of gross. Some of the women who were

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Speaker 1: according to Stump, this magic belt, which was surprisingly never

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Speaker 1: to bid you all adieu. So Arios au revoir of Wairazen,

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