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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.


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them that their captive was undoubtedly a werewolf and had resumed its
I should like to tell you of Guy of Warwick, of King Horn, of William and the Werewolf, and of many others.
I must say they were not cheering to me, for amongst them were "Ordog"--Satan, "Pokol"--hell, "stregoica"--witch, "vrolok" and "vlkoslak"--both mean the same thing, one being Slovak and the other Servian for something that is either werewolf or vampire.
 
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