The legend of werewolf or lykanthrop is one of the most ancient in the history. It's a mythological human that has the ability to shape into a wolf-like creature. This transformation from human to wolf is due to a sort of magic. As the myth says, this happens when the moon is full at midnight 12 o'clock. Also the wolf-woman is named shewolf.
The most known story that refers to werewolves' existence is Little Red Riding Hood. In this tale, there is a wolf who speaks to the girl and after dresses with her grandma's clothes,something that a common wolf can't do. Children realise that wolves look like creatures that behave like people.
In movies, a werewolf is a combination of a wolf and a human- like a hairy human. Real werewolves change their shape so from human they become wolves. By this I mean that their skin converts to the wolf's skin.
A werewolf can be identified by some signs:
- Red hair
- Born on the 25th of December
- Index and middle fingers have the same length
- Love the raw meat
- Hair on the palm of the hands and
- Hair on the inside of the skin
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werewolf
http://www.mythicalrealm.com/legends/werewolf.html
http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=Werewolves
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