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In folklore, a werewolf, or occasionally lycanthrope, is an individual who can shapeshift into a wolf or therianthropic hybrid wolf–humanlike creature, either voluntarily or involuntarily due to a cur
Dolon wearing a wolfskin. Attic red-figure vase, c. 460 BC.
Zeus turning Lycaon into a wolf, engraving by Hendrik Goltzius.
A Vendel period depiction of a warrior wearing a wolf skin (Tierkrieger).
A German woodcut from 1722
Shapeshifting
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In mythology, folklore and speculative fiction, shapeshifting is the ability to physically transform oneself through unnatural means. The idea of shapeshifting is found in the oldest forms of totemism
Werewolf
…a werewolf (from Old English werwulf 'man-wolf'), or occasionally lycanthrope (from Ancient Greek λυκάνθρωπος 'wolf-human'), is an individual who can shapeshift into a wolf or therianthropic hybrid wolf–humanlike creature, either voluntarily or involuntarily due to a curse or other affliction. In modern fiction…
Vertumnus, in the form of an old woman, wooing Pomona, by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout.
Gianlorenzo Bernini, Apollo pursuing an unwilling Daphne who transforms into a laurel tree