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NEURI , an See also:

ancient tribe placed by See also:Herodotus (iv. io5) to the See also:north-See also:east of See also:Scythia. He says of it that it is not Scythian, hut has Scythian customs. Every member of it, being a wizard, becomes a See also:wolf once a See also:year. The position assigned to their See also:district appears to be about the See also:head See also:waters of the See also:Dniester and See also:Bug (See also:Hugh) and the central course of the See also:Dnieper just the region which, on-See also:general grounds, nlace-names, recorded migrations and See also:modern See also:distribution, appears to be the See also:original location of the Slays (q.v.). The wolf See also:story again recalls the tales of werewolves so See also:common among See also:Slavonic peoples, and there is much See also:probability in See also:Schafarik's conjecture that the Neuri are nothing but the ancestors of the Slays. (E. H.

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