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WerewolvesBURCULACAS: (Greek)
Term used in Greece for a vampiric lycanthrope.
GARWAF: (Norman)
Word for werewolf in old Normandy.
GERULPHUS: (Low Latin)
A word used for werewolf in the writing of the Middle Ages.
GHIERWOLF: (Dutch)
A term used for the werewolf in some districts of the Netherlands.
GORGOL: (Welsh)
A medieval Welsh term for a werewolf meaning literally “Man-Wolf”.
KUNANTHROPOS: (Greek)
Mentioned by the 17th Century medical author Paul Aegineta, the Kunanthropos, meaning literally “Dog-Man” denotes an individual who experiences transformation into a canine form.
LOBISHOMEN: (Portuguese)
A term for the werewolf in Portugal; the lobis-Homem is an individual who is laid under an enchantment or destiny and who periodically becomes a wolf.
LOBOMBRE: (Spanish)
A term for the “Man-Wolf” or werewolf in the Spanish Pyrenees and the Cantabrian mountains.
LOUP GAROU: (French)
A term for the werewolf used in France. It also goes under the Breton name “Bleiz-Garv” or “Cruel Wolf”.
LUPIN: (French)
A type of werewolf encountered in Normandy. The Lupins are wolf-beings who gather, standing on their hind legs, by the crumbling walls of graveyards to howl at the moon.
LUPO-MANNARO: (Italian)
The “Man-Wolf” or werewolf of the Italian countryside.
MENEUR DES LOUPS: (Breton)
The Meneur des Loups is a Breton wizard who is a master of a coven of werewolves; he can shift himself into a great wolf with the power of human speech and leads the loup-garoux on their nocturnal forays.
PRIKOLITSCH: (Wallachian)
The Prikolotsch, Priculics or Priccolitsch is a kind of werewolf-vampire encountered in Roumanian folklaw whose name is a variant of the term Varcolac or “Wolfcoat”.
VARCOLAC: (Roumanian)
The classic term for vampire-werewolf in Roumanian.
VAROU: (Guernsey)
In Guernsey and the Channel Islands the older people recall the fearsome being known as Le Varou, a name that is either derived from Old Norman Varulf = “Werewolf” or Breton Varw, signifying “The Dead”. A fearsome lycanthrope.
VERSIPELLIS (Latin)
A Roman word literally denoting a “Skin Turner”, used to describe those whom could travel spiritual and metamorphosed beast shapes. Usually being a wolf, or werewolf. Pliny, in the eighth book of his “Natural History” describes the werewolves of Arcadia as versippeles, referring to a certain clan whose members became wolves. A candidate for werewolfery was chosen by drawing lots and travelled to a certain lake or body of water. Hanging his clothes upon the branch of an old oak tree the candidate swam across the liminal boundary-waters. Having reached the wilderness on the farther side was completely changed into a werewolf, hunting with packs of the Otherworld for nine years before returning to the human shape and world again.
WEREWULF: (Saxon)
The Saxon term “Werewulf” or “Man-Wolf”.
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