# Claim table — werewolves, lycanthropy and the “deleted from history” Reel

| Claim | Evidence label | Finding |
|---|---|---|
| The Instagram Reel exists and is from Patrick’s Rare Books. | Confirmed source item | Instagram metadata/page text show account patricks_rarebooks, the caption, hashtags, engagement counts and date context. |
| The Reel says “They’re erasing these from history” and ends “They are deleting the werewolves.” | Recovered from visible frames | Browser frame OCR captured the hook and closing line. |
| The presenter says a 1750 “history of physick” / history-of-medicine book includes a chapter on werewolves. | Visible Reel claim; exact page not independently verified here | The Reel subtitles say this, but direct Instagram MP4 extraction failed and a public scan/catalogue match for the exact 1750 volume was not recovered in this pass. |
| Werewolves/lycanthropy appear in historical learned and medical contexts. | Supported | Wellcome catalogue results include lycanthropy works, a 1596 Dialogue de la lycanthropie, and “Medicine - Early works to 1800” as a related subject in the lycanthropy search. |
| Werewolf accusations were part of late-medieval/early-modern witch-trial culture. | Supported historical context | Background sources describe werewolf-witch trials peaking in parts of Europe during the 16th–17th centuries, with cases such as Peter Stumpp and Gilles Garnier. |
| Medical writers sometimes treated lycanthropy as melancholy/mental disturbance rather than literal shapeshifting. | Supported | Modern clinical-lycanthropy summaries cite older medical explanations including melancholia/black bile and Johann Weyer’s humoural framing. |
| Clinical lycanthropy remains a psychiatric term in modern literature. | Verified medical-literature anchor | PubMed search returned 18 results; sources include systematic reviews and case reports on clinical lycanthropy / zoanthropy. |
| Old medical/folklore discussion proves literal werewolf creatures existed. | Not proven | The record supports beliefs, accusations, trials, folklore and psychiatric/medical categories — not verified physical human-to-wolf transformation. |
| Werewolves are being “deleted” from history. | Unsupported/conspiracy framing | The material is not deleted: Wellcome, Project Gutenberg, PubMed/PMC and public encyclopedic/court-history sources preserve werewolf/lycanthropy records. |