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The Book of Werewolves: Being an Account of a Terrible Superstition - FULL Audio Book - by Sabine Baring-Gould SUBSCRIBE to https://www.youtube.com/user/GreenAudioBooks - A survey of the myths and legends concerning lycanthropy from ancient times to the Victorian Era. - BACKGROUND ON WEREWOLVES A werewolf, also known as a lycanthrope (from the Greek λυκάνθρωπος: λύκος, lykos, "wolf", and ἄνθρωπος, anthrōpos, "man"), is a mythological or folkloric human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf or an therianthropic hybrid wolf-like creature, either purposely or after being placed under a curse or affliction (e.g. via a bite or scratch from another werewolf). This transformation is often associated with the appearance of the full moon. Early sources for belief in lycanthropy are Petronius and Gervase of Tilbury. In addition to the natural characteristics inherent to both wolves and humans, werewolves are often attributed strength and speed far beyond those of wolves or men. The werewolf is generally held as a European character, although its lore spread through the world in later times. Shape-shifters, similar to werewolves, are common in tales from all over the world, most notably amongst the Native Americans, though most of them involve animal forms other than wolves. Werewolves are a frequent subject of modern fiction of the fantasy or horror genre. Thus, the ideas that werewolves are only vulnerable to silver bullets or other silver weapons, or that they can cause others to become werewolves by biting or wounding them, derive from 19th-century works of fiction. - The word werewolf continues a late Old English wer(e)wulf, a compound of were "man" and wulf "wolf". The only Old High German testimony is in the form of a given name, Weriuuolf, although an early Middle High German werwolf is found in Burchard of Worms and Berthold of Regensburg. The word or concept does not occur in medieval German poetry or fiction, gaining popularity only from the 15th century. Middle Latin gerulphus (Anglo-Norman garwalf, French loup-garou are loans from an Old Frankish *wariwulf.[1] [2] The term lycanthropy, referring both to the ability to transform oneself into a wolf and to the act of so doing, comes from Ancient Greek lykánthropos (λυκάνθρωπος): λύκος, lýkos ("wolf") + άνθρωπος, ánthrōpos ("human").[3] Lycanthropy is but one form of therianthropy, the ability to metamorphose into animals in general. The term therianthrope literally means "beast-man". The word has also been linked to the original werewolf of classical mythology, Lycaon, a king of Arcadia who, according to Ovid's Metamorphoses, was turned into a ravenous wolf in retribution for attempting to serve his own son to visiting Zeus in an attempt to disprove the god's divinity. There is also a mental illness called lycanthropy in which a patient believes he or she is, or has transformed into, an animal and behaves accordingly. This is sometimes referred to as clinical lycanthropy to distinguish it from its use in legends. Despite its origin as a term for man-wolf transformations only, lycanthropy is used in this sense for animals of any type. This broader meaning is often used in modern fictional references, such as in roleplaying game culture. Another ancient term for shapeshifting between any animal forms is versipellis, from which the English words turnskin and turncoat are derived.[4] This Latin word is similar in meaning to words used for werewolves and other shapeshifters in Russian (oboroten) and Old Norse (hamrammr). - If you enjoyed listening to "The Book of Werewolves: Being an Account of a Terrible Superstition - FULL Audio Book - by Sabine Baring-Gould" please rate, comment and subscribe to GreenAudioBooks, We really appreciate it :) Thanks for viewing The Book of Werewolves: Being an Account of a Terrible Superstition - FULL Audio Book - by Sabine Baring-Gould We hope you enjoyed The Book of Werewolves: Being an Account of a Terrible Superstition - FULL Audio Book - by Sabine Baring-Gould