# Soldier: Neuri *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 21 Sep 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 *21 Sep 1997, 22:04* Reply: Item #9100176 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET03# alga, The Neuri are certainly in my Herodotus, the juiciest bit in book four, just before the Amazons: "there is a story current amongst the Scythians and the Greeks in Scythia that once a year every Neuria turns into a wolf for a few days, then turns back into a man again" (around section 105 I guess). And just before that is a neat bit about the Neurians being run out of their own country by an invasion of snakes. =mantis= ---