Have you heard of werewolves?  Unless you've never read any fairy tales or fantasy, you likely have.  The word "werewolf" comes from an Anglo-Saxon word, "wer," which means man.  Hence, a "man" wolf.
     What's so important about werewolves?  As I've been studying, of late, magic and superstition in early modern Europe, I had occasion to focus on werewolves and other mythical, magical, and otherworldly entities.  Unlike some of its fantastical counterparts, however, the werewolf actually has some basis in scientific fact.  Medical researchers have long identified a condition called lyanthropy, that is, wolf like behavior in a human being. Lyanthropy is analogous to a condition called boantropy, cow like behavior in a human being (the most well known example being the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar).
     What fascinates me about werewolves is the way they demonstrate that, lyanthropy aside, even in our "modern" age, people retain a belief in the fantastical and otherworldly. Despite the primacy of science and its elevation of unbiased reason (a surely unattainable quality) above all things, human beings find value in what they cannot--and likely never will--understand.
    Yet it fits.  We are mysterious beings living in a mysterious world.  Why would we not look for answers in mystery?
     Even, I dare say, the mystery of God.