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Lycanthropy   Listen
noun
Lycanthropy  n.  
1.
The supposed act of turning one's self or another person into a wolf.
2.
(Med.) A kind of erratic melancholy, in which the patient imagines himself a wolf, and imitates the actions of that animal.





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"Lycanthropy" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the castle to which Jack climbed on his bean-stalk, and which blended the beneficent lightning-god Thor and the mischievous Hermes and the faun-like Pan into the grotesque Teutonic Devil, did not fail to impart a new and fearful character to the belief in werewolves. Lycanthropy became regarded as a species of witchcraft; the werewolf was supposed to have obtained his peculiar powers through the favour or connivance of the Devil; and hundreds of persons were burned alive or broken on the wheel for having availed ...
— Myths and Myth-Makers - Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology • John Fiske
... features marked the outbreak of lycanthropy in the years 1598-1600, among the Vaudois. The possessed fell into catalepsy, and lay senseless during the time they imagined themselves in their bestial transformation. The disease was almost uniformly complicated with demonopathy, ...
— The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II • Various
... invention of Lupa, for the name of the mother of the Roman twins, by any means satisfactory. May not the mysteries of Lycanthropy have had their origin in such a not infrequent fact, if Col. Sleeman may be trusted, as the ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 180, April 9, 1853 • Various


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