were-wolf
English
Noun
were-wolf (plural were-wolves)
- Alternative form of werewolf
- 2013, Matthew Beresford, White Devil, →ISBN, page 118:
- For its part, the vivid imagery of Servian folklore states that 'the power to become a were-wolf is obtained by drinking the water which settles in a foot-print left in the clay by a wolf.'
- 2014, Henry Fanshawe Tozer, A History of Ancient Geography, →ISBN, page 86:
- This fancy Herodotus regards with incredulity, but his mention of it is none the less valuable, for the were-wolf is a figure which constantly appears in modern folk-lore.
- 2017, Sabine Baring-Gould -, The Book of Were-Wolves:
- If traditions of were-wolves are scanty in England, it is quite the reverse if we cross the water.
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