A person transformed into a wolf in form and appetite, either temporarily or permanently, whether by supernatural influences, by witchcraft, or voluntarily; a lycanthrope
In stories and films, a werewolf is a person who changes into a wolf. werewolves a person who, in stories, changes into a wolf every month when the moon is full. In European folklore, a man who changes into a wolf at night and devours animals, people, or corpses, returning to human form by day. Some werewolves are thought to change shape at will; others, who inherited the condition or acquired it by being bitten by a werewolf, are transformed involuntarily under the influence of a full moon. Belief in werewolves is found throughout the world and was especially common in 16th-century France. Humans who believe they are wolves suffer from a mental disorder called lycanthropy
(Old English werewulf,"man-wolf") According to an ancient a man who is transformed, or who transforms himself, into a wolf in nature and appearance The werewolf, sometimes transformed under the influence of a full moon, roams about at night, devouring infants or corpses Stories of such transformations are given in the works of several classical writers and the superstition was common throughout Europe in late medieval times, when many men were accused and convicted of being werewolves The term lycanthropy refers to the delusion that one has become a wolf