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

noun - a person capable of assuming the form of a wolf

WEREWOLVES - 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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Lycanthropes
seems there used to be packs of them with a woof - quite bewitching
Seems they used to be canine - spirited ones
Incredibly changeable people used to be footballers

Last Seen in these Crosswords & Puzzles
Feb 19 2013 New York Times
Feb 19 2013 New York Times
Sep 8 2009 The Times - Cryptic
Mar 27 2008 Irish Times (Crosaire)
May 19 2000 Irish Times (Crosaire)

Possible Jeopardy Clues
16th century France was plagued with reports of these shape-shifters the French call loups-garous
Also called lycanthropes, they revert to human form when they are wounded

Werewolves 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,

Werewolves 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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