# Hero As Werwolf *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 26 Aug 1997* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### m.driussi *26 Aug 1997, 23:27* Reply: Item #2489873 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# Photon, Right, "loup garou" is French for werewolf. Re: seven American nights as being along the lines of ARABIAN NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENTS, yes, as well as "15 Minute Hamlet--Shakespeare for Americans"! (But of course, I see that "seven" and wonder if each day matches up to a planetary day of the week god. Bad twitch on my part.) So anyway, at the level we might term "titular," SAN is a reworking of ANE (right down to the bone where the hero is Persian rather than Arabian, isn't it? A reflection of the true Persian origins of the "Arabic" masterpiece). If this is a given, and the story-within-story certainly seems standard for ANE, then of couse our first question is: which tale of the 1,001 nights of ANE is being retold here? (Just to kick things out of the Judaeo-Christian circuit. ) This is not a rhetorical question! I don't have an answer in mind! An answer would come from someone more familiar with ANE than I--or so I hope. =mantis= ---