{"id":36075,"date":"2018-05-31T20:57:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T20:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/insidethegoblinuniverse.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/31\/werewolves-of-ireland\/"},"modified":"2018-05-31T20:57:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T20:57:34","slug":"werewolves-of-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insidethegoblinuniverse.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/31\/werewolves-of-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"WEREWOLVES OF IRELAND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><i>Ireland in the Midddle Ages, apart from having a high king, had a considerable number of petty kingdoms.\u00a0 One of these was called Ossory, called after its resident tribe, the Osraige.\u00a0 The last king was Donal IV, whose reign ended in 1176.<\/i><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large\"><i><br \/><\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large\"><i>The curious thing about the Osraige was they had the local reputation of turning into werewolves from time to time.\u00a0 This is strange because their tribal name comes from the word <\/i>os<i>, an old or obsolescent word for a deer.\u00a0 How they attained a reputation for lycanthropy is anybody&#8217;s guess.\u00a0 As wolves were widespread in Ireland, it is not impossible that they dressed in wolfskins for some ritual or ceremony.<\/i><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large\"><i><br \/><\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large\"><i>The word for a werewolf in the Irish language (which was the majority language in the country before 1850) is <\/i>conriocht.\u00a0 <i>However, there was in early times a special word for a female werewolf: <\/i>conoel <i>(modern <\/i>conaol<i>).<\/i><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large\"><i><br \/><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a 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