*Not for sensitive readers*
Human history has been filled with myths and legends of monsters and the hero's that go out and fight them.
I believe that the existence of these 'monsters' was founded on the misunderstanding of the criminal mind.
Werewolves, vampires and ghouls all show traits of mental issues that psychopaths exhibit.
Examples of the top of my head.
Dismemberment and cannabilism - Werewolves
Haematophilia - Vampires
Necrophilia - Ghouls.
Countess Elizabeth Bathory, 1560 - 1614 AD, is one of the first documented serial killer in the late 1500's. She makes Jack the Ripper look like a church mouse.
It was her that started doctors to try understand the criminal mind. It would be 400 years later that the term 'Psychopath' was first penned down as a mental condition.
What do you all think? Can you match a mental condition to a monster or mythological entity.
Kleptomania to a goblin?
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