Quoted from Baring-Gould's book in TFA: > It is to be observed that the chief seat of Lycanthropy was Arcadia and it has been very plausibly suggested that the

Quoted from Baring-Gould's book in TFA: > It is to be observed that the chief seat of Lycanthropy was Arcadia and it has been very plausibly suggested that the cause might be traced to the following circumstance:—The natives were a pastoral people, and would consequently suffer very severely from the attacks and depredations of wolves. They would naturally institute a sacrifice to obtain deliverance from this pest, and security for their flocks. This sacrifice consisted in the offering of a child, and it was instituted by Lycaon [an Arcadian king who fed his son to Zeus and was subsequently turned into a wolf for his perversity]. From the circumstance of the sacrifice being human, and from the peculiarity of the name of its originator, rose the myth. Coincidentally I just yesterday read an interesting factoid in the footnotes to Plutarch's "Life of Pyrrhus" [1]: > Lukos or Lycus, in Greek, is a wolf, and Lukeios, or Lycius, a common epithet of Apollo, who as the archer-god was conceived of as the slayer of wolves, and who was also the tutelar deity of Lycia. The word lukē, however, is found in Greek vocabularies, corresponding to lux, light, and this, it is very possible, was the original significance of lukeios, though in after times more obvious meanings were attached to it. [1] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Plutarch%27s_Lives_(Clough)/Life_of_Pyrrhus https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Plutarch%27s_Lives_(Clough)/L...