lycanthropy

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[1] The word lycanthropy is sometimes used generically for any transformation of a human into animal form, though the precise term for that is technically \ "therianthropy\".

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  1. noun In folklore, the magical ability to assume the form and characteristics of a wolf.
  2. noun A delusion that one has become or assumed the characteristics of a wolf or other animal.

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  • I felt that prickling energy of lycanthropy, like a wash of electricity across my skin. —  BloodNoir
  • Ostensibly it's an adventure story about lycanthropy --or, more expressly, the battle for dominance between lycanthropy and humanity. —  F ;SF; - vol 092 issue 06 - June 1997
  • Like those suffering from lycanthropy, could the psychosis go so far as to drive the sufferer to seek to live as a bear would live, eat as a bear would eat and kill as a bear would kill? —  Blood Lure
  • I thought about giving him the lecture on vampirism being sort of like lycanthropy, in that it was a metaphysical disease. —  Chance, Karen - Touch the Dark
  • When my first novel was published there was a small and helpful burst of accompanying publicity which, nevertheless, caused me to feel suddenly exposed, examined and poised on the lip of some horrible pit of compensatory doom: today the Guardian profile, tomorrow the freak case of galloping leprosy / lycanthropy / demonic possession. —  Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
 

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  1. from Middle Latin lycanthropia, from Greek λυκανθρωπία, a madness in which one imagines himself a wolf, from λυκάνθρωπος, a man-wolf: see lycanthrope.
 

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/laɪˈkænθrəpi/
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