At center, infernal daemon represented as a Wolf-man. According to some scholars, this figure represents the soul of a man bound to the world of the dead. The Etruscan demonizing conception transforms this figure in a man-wolf, a daemon-wolf. Therefore the "monster" could be identified as a restless soul: primarily the spirit of people who had not received a ritual burial, or who had died violently or prematurely. See the cinerary urn - Volterra, Museo Guarnacci - depicting an enchained…
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