lycanthropy
Noun
Meaning
The supposed act of turning one's self or another person into a wolf.
A kind of erratic melancholy, in which the patient imagines himself a wolf, and imitates the actions of that animal.
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Eventually I fell asleep in the Rabies and Lycanthropy section. Woolsey bites on occasion, and I'm concerned.' - Magnus Bane.
The silhouette was named for Etienne de Silhouette, the notoriously stingy finance minister for Louis XV, who ironically was himself incapable of casting a shadow, due to lycanthropy.
Current-day werewolf fiction almost exclusively involves lycanthropy being either a hereditary condition or being transmitted like an infectious disease by the bite of another werewolf.
Matera is a moon much like our own, whose phases govern lycanthropy (werewolves, werebears, etc.).
Unlike vampirism and lycanthropy, the powers necessary to control the energies of the deceased are not easily acquired.
Ovid also relates stories of men who roamed the woods of Arcadia in the form of wolves. citation citation In addition to Ovid, other Roman writers also mentioned lycanthropy.