There haven't been any wolves in Ireland since - oh, I think the last one was killed in Wicklow in the early 19th century, poor little mactire. So can i be a werefuiseog instead?

It occurs to me that I was once shown a bunch of Renaissance pictures of people with bare feet and it was pointed out that the feet had a big toe that was almost like an opposable thumb. This, my informant said, was because the models were working girls and boys, who had gone barefoot all their lives.

I wonder whether those of us with longer second toes might have been encouraged to go barefoot as children, and so have got grippy, muscular toes; maybe it's more a question of posture than actual size?