Were-Wolf and Vampire in Romania by Harry A. Senn

Wolf pelts among Slavic tribes during the first millennium AD. Perkowski have argued that the word vrykolakas derived from an old Slavic word that referred More recent researchers suchĪs Harry Senn and Jan L. Werewolf (i.e., a man or woman who changed into a wolf and attacked the local cattle). Researcher Freidrich Krauss, working in Bosnia, concluded that the vrykolakas (spelled vukodlak in Bosnia) was a Southern Balkan countries, there was some confusion over the word's meaning. In various Slavic languages) to describe vampires in recent centuries in Greece. That relationship was particularly evident in the use of the term vrykolakas (and cognate terms Side in the mythologies of many cultures, but they have a special relationship in the southern Balkan area, WEREWOLVES AND VAMPIRES: Werewolves and vampires have been reported as existing side by Some contemporary cases are included in the selection of papers compiled by Richard Contemporary reports of lycanthropy also come from around the world, both in rural The animals into which humans transform hasīeen quite varied, including lions, tigers, jaguars, hyenas, sharks, and crocodiles - all animals that are large and Like measures, werewolfism has been reported throughout the world, though Mythology and believed that the change into animals was a diseased condition brought on by melancholia or drugs. Of ancient writers such as Galen and Virgil provided the first descriptions of lycanthropy. Word lycanthropy see the movie Underworld) displeased Zeus and the deity changed him into a wolf. The oldest report of a man changing into a wolf was from ancient Greek mythology. Werewolfism was a disease, lycanthropy, in which people believe that they change into a werewolf when, in fact, they doįRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTER, the werewolf was an ancient figure found in the folklore of By definition the werewolf is a human being whoĪt various times (usually at the full moon),Įither voluntarily or involuntarily, changes into a wolf or wolflikeĬreature and assumes many of the characteristics of the wolf, especially its viciousness. Of the werewolf and vampire together in three films during the 1940s. That relationship wasġ930s with the production of two werewolf movies by Universal Pictures and the inclusion The werewolf is one of several monsters closely associated in the public mind with the vampire. Wolfman, Werewolves, Lycans ~ Classic Monsters ~ New Monsters ~ Mardi's Funpagez ~ ~ Austin TX

Were-Wolf and Vampire in Romania by Harry A. Senn