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Definitions of lycanthropy in various dictionaries:
noun - (folklore) the magical ability of a person to assume the characteristics of a wolf
In folklore, the magical ability to assume the form and characteristics of a wolf.
LYCANTHROPY - 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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| From the Greek for "wolf" & "man", its what the person seen here is suffering from |
| This "disease" seen in the movies in which a man turns into a wolf is from the Greek for "wolf man" |
| Condition that affects every werewolf |
| A wolf?! Where?! It's the delusion of one who believes they're a wolf |
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| the mythical transformation of a person into a wolf. |
| (folklore) the magical ability of a person to assume the characteristics of a wolf |
| The mythical transformation of a person into a wolf. |
| In folklore, the magical ability to assume the form and characteristics of a wolf. |
| A delusion that one has become or assumed the characteristics of a wolf or other animal. |
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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, |