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Type of magical ability, magical power

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Scully dismisses this theory and instead credits the belief to clinical lycanthropy.
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The curse of lycanthropy was also considered by some scholars as being a divine punishment.
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After lycanthropy, cynanthropy is the best known term for a specific variety of therianthropy.
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Lycanthropy is but one form of therianthropy, the ability to metamorphose into animals in general.
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This is sometimes referred to as clinical lycanthropy to distinguish it from its use in legends.
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Kitsunetsuki is similar to but distinct from clinical lycanthropy.
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Lycanthropy is a disease, and a major character has contracted it from a faulty vaccine against it.
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I felt the studies of lycanthropy etc at the start were forced and not linked sufficiently to the work.
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Besides Ovid, other Roman writers also treated lycanthropy.
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  • (folklore) the magical ability of a person to assume the characteristics of a wolf
  • (lycanthrope) werewolf: a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and back again
  • A werewolf (from Old English: wer, "man") or lycanthrope (Greek: u03BBu03C5u03BAu03ACu03BDu03B8u03C1u03C9u03C0u03BFu03C2, lyku00E1nthropos: u03BBu03CDu03BAu03BFu03C2, lykos, "wolf", and u1F04u03BDu03B8u03C1u03C9u03C0u03BFu03C2, anthru014Dpos, "human") is a mythological or folkloric human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf or a therianthropic hybrid wolf-like creature, either purposely or after being placed under a curse or affliction (e.g. via a bite or scratch from another werewolf)...
  • Lycanthropy is the first studio album by singer-songwriter Patrick Wolf and was recorded over the eight years between 1994 and 2002. It was critically acclaimed at the time of its release, as was his next effort, Wind in the Wires.
  • Clinical lycanthropy is defined as a rare psychiatric syndrome that involves a delusion that the affected person can or has transformed into an animal or that he or she is an animal. ...
  • (Lycanthrope (1999 film)) Lycanthrope (also known as Bloody Moon) is a 1999 horror film written and directed by Bob Cook. The film stars Robert Carradine who also served as producer.
  • (Lycanthrope (Dungeons & Dragons)) In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the lycanthrope (pronounced LY-kun-throhp, LY-kan-throhp, like lichen/rope/my tan rope) is a humanoid shapeshifter based on various legends of lycanthropy.
  • (Lycanthrope (song)) "Lycanthrope" is a single by the band +44, from their debut album When Your Heart Stops Beating. ...
  • The act of shape-shifting between the form of a man (human being) and a wolf, often done during a full moon, according to legend; A delusion in which one believes oneself to be a wolf or other wild animal