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The Wolf Man, also known as a werewolf, is a legendary creature found in many independent cultures throughout the world. It is said that this is the most universal of all the myths (probably together with the Vampire), and even today, many people believe in the existence of werewolves or other kinds of "Beastman." I really do not confuse the terms: werewolf is the man who, due to a psychological disorder, believed to have taken on the appearance, voice and behavior of a wolf, though not really suffered any physical transformation, which leads to act accordingly, you understand killing and committing acts of cannibalism. For its part, the werewolf is traditionally a man who, for purposes magic or natural tendency, it has the ability to transform his appearance into that of a wolf. All the characteristics of that animal - such as the ferocity, strength, cunning and speed, are clearly manifest in them, and woe to anyone who crosses his path. According to popular belief, the werewolf can stay with your animal look only for the space of a few hours, usually when the full moon comes





Origins.





To go back to the origin of the werewolf and lycanthropy, we must go back to times of ancient Greece, specifically Lycaon first King of Arcadia. Founder of pagan worship in the form of human sacrifice, defied Zeus himself, inviting him to verify his identity to a banquet where they served the flesh of a child. Knowing that God was unaware of the nature of the feast, fearful of punishment he fled to the countryside, and once there he discovered that Zeus had booked, when it was gradually transformed into a wolf.

Lycaon's story appears in Ovid's Metamorphoses: here a fragment of his transformation: "In hair become their clothes in his arms legs: it is wolf and bears the traces of their old form. The graying of it is, the same violence on her face, eyes look the same, the same ferocity the image is. "


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werewolf classical allusions are found in The Satyricon of Petronius, in the chapter on The Dinner of Trimalchio. There Nicerote tells the story of the soldier who became a wolf, a full moon night, when both went to Melissa's house: "We came in the midst of the graves, my man got to do his business with tombs ; kept telling me I was humming and tombstones. Then I looked to my companion was undressing and putting all his clothes by the roadside. I had the breath at the tip of the nose dive as I was dead. He peed around his clothes, and suddenly turned into a wolf. "

Evolution






is certain that during the Middle Ages, a period of obscurantism and superstition, will strengthen the myth of the werewolf. The wolf is the natural enemy of sheep and cattle, for Jesus Christ both God and man. No wonder that the covenants associated with the devil take the idea of \u200b\u200btransforming into a wolf zoomorphic.

In the modern age, the court of the Inquisition was raging in His judgments against witchcraft and black magic. It is reported that only France has registered over 30,000 cases that were prosecuted on charges of lycanthropy.