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  • “Silver killed vampires in the old lore, as well as were-wolves,” Snow mused, as if contributing to the campfire ghost stories.

    Silver Zombie Carole Nelson Douglas 2010

  • As she danced she whirled both arms above her head and cried as the were-wolves are said to do on stormy nights.

    In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

  • The soldiers were required to be blood-thirsty and violent like were-wolves, their symbol was the Wolfsangel.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Kevin Maher 2009

  • The soldiers were required to be blood-thirsty and violent like were-wolves, their symbol was the Wolfsangel.

    Hitler & Werewolves Kevin Maher 2009

  • A movie about vampires and were-wolves being dark?

    On critics and publishing, amateur and otherwise 2008

  • Howling like were-wolves, they followed him across the glade and reached him just as he cut the tether - ing rope of the myat with his sword and leaped into the high saddle.

    Elric At The End of Time Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1984

  • There are the stereotyped three brothers of German and Russian stories; the dragons, giants, were-wolves, wicked magicians, and beautiful girls married to bears, of all Aryan folk-lore; and sundry nondescript personages with superhuman powers which have no exact analogues among the other Aryan races, and seem to be original products of Caucasian fancy.

    Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science Various

  • _Versipelles_, it may be remembered, was the Latin name for these "were-wolves."

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various

  • The strange part of it was, though my reason told me that he had been a victim of his own brilliant imagination, part of my mind -- that part that believed in second sight and banshees and were-wolves, and stuff of that sort -- told me that he was not so very much wrong after all.

    The Lost Valley James Morgan Walsh 1924

  • As she danced she whirled both arms above her head and cried as the were-wolves are said to do on stormy nights.

    King of the Khyber Rifles Talbot Mundy 1909

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