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Definitions of lycanthrope in various dictionaries:

noun - a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and back again

A werewolf.

LYCANTHROPE - In folklore, a werewolf (Old English: werwulf, "man-wolf") or occasionally lycanthrope (Greek: lukánthrpos, "wolf-person") is a human with the abi...

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Possible Crossword Clues
Soldier in loch prey, perhaps, for monster
Monster able to change appearance from human to wolf

Last Seen in these Crosswords & Puzzles
Dec 27 2010 The Times - Cryptic
Dec 30 2007 The Telegraph - General Knowledge

Possible Jeopardy Clues
This alternate name for a werewolf is from the Greek for "wolf man"
From the Greek for "wolf man", it's another term for werewolf

Possible Dictionary Clues
A werewolf.
a werewolf.
a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf
A person affected with lycanthropy.

Lycanthrope description
In folklore, a werewolf (Old English: werwulf, "man-wolf") or occasionally lycanthrope (Greek: lukánthrpos, "wolf-person") is a human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf (or, especially in modern film, a therianthropic hybrid wolflike creature), either purposely or after being placed under a curse or affliction (often a bite or scratch from another werewolf). Early sources for belief in this ability or affliction, called lycanthropy , are Petronius (2766) and Gervase of Tilbury (11501228). * The werewolf is a widespread concept in European folklore, existing in many variants, which are related by a common development of a Christian interpretation of underlying European folklore developed during the medieval period. From the early modern period, werewolf beliefs also spread to the New World with colonialism. Belief in werewolves developed in parallel to the belief in witches, in the course of the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. Like the witchcraft trials as a whole,

Lycanthrope description

In folklore, a werewolf (Old English: werwulf, "man-wolf") or occasionally lycanthrope (Greek: lukánthrpos, "wolf-person") is a human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf (or, especially in modern film, a therianthropic hybrid wolflike creature), either purposely or after being placed under a curse or affliction (often a bite or scratch from another werewolf). Early sources for belief in this ability or affliction, called lycanthropy , are Petronius (2766) and Gervase of Tilbury (11501228).
* The werewolf is a widespread concept in European folklore, existing in many variants, which are related by a common development of a Christian interpretation of underlying European folklore developed during the medieval period. From the early modern period, werewolf beliefs also spread to the New World with colonialism. Belief in werewolves developed in parallel to the belief in witches, in the course of the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. Like the witchcraft trials as a whole,

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