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A condition in which people change into animals, which many cultures around the world believe in.
This belief dates back into antiquity, and usually the most dangerous animal in the area — tigers in southern Asia and Japan, the hyena or leopard in Africa, the cat in England, and the bear and wolf in Europe and northern Asia — is connected with it. Also, the hallucination (either by the influence of psychotropic drugs or by mental disease) that one can be transformed into an animal. The term comes from the Greek lukos, wolf' and anthropos, man', and stories of such a metamorphosis are present in Greek myth and European folklore.
In Greek mythology, Lycaon (a legendary king of Arcadia) tried to trick Zeus into eating human flesh, but he was caught and changed into a wolf as punishment. Apparently this myth was associated with an ancient cult in which a sacrifice including human flesh was prepared by the performing priests, and whoever tasted it was supposed to change into a wolf. These rituals were held annually at Mount Lycaeus in Arcadia.
In ancient Rome there was also a superstitious belief that the power of magic and spells could transform a man into a wolf.
The werewolf superstition prevalent in late medieval Europe usually involved transformation of a human into a wolf under the influence of the full moon, nightly incursions into the woods to attack and eat animals and people, and regression into human form. It was also a common belief at that time that witches could transform themselves into animals in order to wander at night and attack and devour humans to satisfy their blood lust, and then return to human form.
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