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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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... specimen of early literature, but for the light it throws on the strange wild superstition dealing with the conversion of men into wolves, which has been found so widely prevalent that it has received a sort of scientific title in the word Lycanthropy. These two books made the reputation of the Roxburghe, and proved an example and encouragement to the clubs which began to arise more or less on its model. It was a healthy protest against the Dibdinism which had ruled the destinies of the club, for Dibdin had been its master, ...
— The Book-Hunter - A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author • John Hill Burton


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