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Werewolves

erewolf, part man, part human, someone violent who can control thei ability to

Other sources may come from Scandinavian folklore, from the tales of the Saga of Volsungs that tell the story of a man and his son discovering pellets that transform humans into beasts for a couple days. Some early werewolf appearances also came from the legend of Lycaon in Greek mythology, the story is about the god Zeus punishing Lycaon for feeding him a meal with human sacrifice, Zeus turned him and his sons into wolves. Whether you believe in these hairy creatures or not I think we can agree they sound terrifying.

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morph between a vicious hairy creature and a normal human. Where do they come from? It is still unclear where the legend comes from, some scholars believe some beliefs originated from stories in the epic of Gilgamesh, an old western book that tells tales of creatures.

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