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Myths, Legends, Folktales

In this section I have gathered posts about myths, legends and folktales which feature werewolves.

Zeus and Lycaon
The Wolf Stone
Karl Bartsch's Three Stories About Werewolves
Sigmund and Sinfjotli
The Beast of Gévaudan, 1764-67
The Werewolf's Daughter

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Even a man who's pure in heart
And says his prayers by night
May become a wolf when the wolfsbane blooms
And the autumn moon is bright
- a famous verse written by Curt Siodmak, the screenwriter for the 1941 movie The Wolf Man

An artist's respresentation of the Beast of Gévaudan, which terrorised France in 1764-67

Lycaon, king of Arcady, flees from Zeus who has turned him into a wolf for the atrocities he committed.

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An 18th century engraving depicting a werewolf devouring a woman.

Werewolves in a church, an illustration by Berni Wrightson to Stephen King's novella The Cycle of the Werewolf.

The Transformation of Sorcerers by Francisco Goya. Four sorcerers are shown shapeshifting into beasts in preparation for the Sabbath. One of them has already taken on a lupine form.

Lon Chaney, Jr. as the Wolf Man. Not only was this Chaney's most famous role, but the movie consolidated the popular look of the werewolf for the next forty years (and beyond) as well as laying the foundations for many modern werewolf cliches.

A bipedal wolf and a lumberjack, an illustration by Frank Adams to Alexander Dumas' novel The Wolf Leader. Perhaps because of their workplace, there exist many folk tales involving lumberjacks coming in contact with, or being themselves, werewolves.

An illustration of the Warcraft universe's Worgen, as featured in the Curse of the Worgen comic book.

A werewolf hunt. According to some lore, werewolves took a particular liking to graveyards.

A British Conservative Poster from 1909 showing socialism in the form of a werewolf attacking Britain.

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