Shapeshifting

To the Best of Our Knowledge by Wisconsin Public Radio

Nov 20, 202151:58Society & Culture

There are old folktales and legends of people who can become animals. Animals who can become people. And there’s a lesson for our own time in those shapeshifting stories — a recognition that the membrane between what's h...

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