Old Stinker: English Eerie, Ecology, and the Yorkshire Werewolf

In 2016, tabloid newspapers were telling tales of a werewolf-like creature sighted in Yorkshire. Variously known as 'Old Stinker' and 'The Beast Of Barmston Drain,' this creature seems to have sprung from the misty centuries of English werewolf lore. Or has it? On this episode, Cian sinks a Black Sheep ale while looking into:
-what is the real history or werewolf lore in England?
-is lycanthropy a curse, or something you do yourself?
-links between werewolfism and early modern witch trials
-21st century tabloid newspaper legends
-Re-enchanting the landscape and 'English Eerie'
-Extinction and rewilding
SOURCES:
Wolf howl by Betchkal
https://freesound.org/people/betchkal/sounds/500646/
The Book Of Were-Wolves, Sabine Baring-Gould, 1865
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5324
Haunted Ireland, Tarquin Blake, 2014
https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=haunted+ireland+tarquin+blake&addon=chrome&addonversion=3.2.0&method=topbar
MALEFICIUM: Wichcraft and Witch-Hunting In The West, Gordon Blake, 2017
https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30240646141&searchurl=kn%3DMaleficium%26sortby%3D3
Three Men Seeking Monsters, Nick Redfern, 2004
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/107189.Three_Men_Seeking_Monsters?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=UZBrhYEoza&rank=1
Hull Daily Mail Article
https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/beast-barmston-drain-seen-killing-73245
AnomalyInfo.com article by Garth Haslam
http://anomalyinfo.com/Stories/2016-september-1-werewolf-encountered-halsham-england
Wolves In The Wolds: Late Capitalism, the English Eerie and the Wyrd Case Of Old Stinker, Sam M George
https://www.academia.edu/33708017/Wolves_in_the_Wolds_Late_Capitalism_the_English_Eerie_and_the_Wyrd_Case_of_Old_Stinker_the_Hull_Werewolf