werewolf

In folk belief, a human being either turned into a wolf by a spell or having the ability to assume a wolf form. The symptoms of porphyria may have fostered the legends.

Stories of such transformations (called lycanthropy) go back to the ancient Greek writer Herodotus, the Roman poet Virgil, and the Scandinavian sagas.

Werewolf

Abortive Nazi resistance organization against the Allied invasion of Germany 1945. It only succeeded in attracting a few diehard Nazi fanatics and, with no broad support, collapsed when the Allies rounded up the remaining Nazi leaders.