This Latin word is similar in meaning to words used for werewolves and other shapeshifters in Russian ( oboroten ) and Old Norse ( hamrammr ).

* Wolfsbane in the Harry Potter series of Fantasy novels is a toxic plant that can be used as an ingredient in the Wolfsbane Potion, a potion werewolves use to maintain their rationality and conscience when transformed into a wolf.

While the term kaiju is used in the West to describe monsters from tokusatsu and Japanese folklore, monsters like vampires, werewolves, Frankenstein's Monster, mummies and zombies would fall into this category.

Russell was captured by criminal scientist Nightshade who used his blood to create the Night Patrol, a group of werewolves in Starkesboro, Massachusetts.

Captain America-also transformed into a werewolf-freed Russell and led the werewolves to defeat Nightshade's master, Dredmund the Druid, who had used the Godstone ( former gem of the Man-Wolf ) to briefly become the powerful Starwolf.

He then again nearly fooled his way out claiming that Crawley had used the device to cure him until one of the Monster Force crew realized that it only worked on vampires, not on werewolves and recaptured him.

Rachel Hawthorne's Dark Guardian novels examine a secret society of werewolves who live peacefully alongside normal humans, are able to initiate the change at will to protect their kind, and generally retain control of themselves when transformed.

Throughout the book Angua debates with herself over whether it would be best to just return to Überwald and live among other werewolves.

The werewolves, or the ones who survive the change, live on the " Hill " and enjoy special treatment, separated from the normal humans.

The 16th century Swedish writer Olaus Magnus says that the Livonian werewolves were initiated by draining a cup of specially prepared beer and repeating a set formula.

Dracula drew on earlier mythologies of werewolves and similar legendary demons and " was to voice the anxieties of an age ", and the " fears of late Victorian patriarchy ".

Thiess was steadfast in his assertions, claiming that werewolves in Germany and Russia also did battle with the devil's minions in their own versions of hell, and insisted that when werewolves died, their souls were welcomed into heaven as reward for their service.

This feature does not appear in stories about werewolves before the 19th century ( the claim that the Beast of Gévaudan, an 18th-century wolf or wolf-like creature, was shot by a silver bullet appears to have been introduced by novelists retelling the story from 1935 onwards and not in earlier versions ).

This is argued by Eisler to indicate that the European transition from fruit gathering to predatory hunting was a conscious process, simultaneously accompanied by an emotional upheaval still remembered in humanity's subconscious, which in turn became reflected in the later medieval superstition of werewolves.

The 1897 novel Dracula drew on earlier mythologies of werewolves and similar legendary demons and " was to voice the anxieties of an age ", and the " fears of late Victorian patriarchy ".

In Irish mythology, Airitech was a mysterious character whose three daughters were werewolves.

Gustavo Correa, suggests nagualism is not pre-Columbian, arguing that it was wholly imported from Europe, where he compares it to the medieval belief in werewolves.

Another early example of a horror game released that year was Sega's arcade game Monster Bash, which introduced classic horror-movie monsters, including the likes of Dracula, the Frankenstein monster, and werewolves, helping to lay the foundations for future survival horror games.

He was the runt of the litter and his parents, Howard and Heather, were valuable long-haired Dachshunds ( whom Chester secretly suspected of being werewolves ).

The first werewolf was Draugluin, and the greatest wolf was Carcharoth, the guardian of Angband, a descendant of Draugluin as all other werewolves were.

" The nearby Mountwarlock Estate, with its deadly wyverns, gorgons and upas tree, was owned by the eight-foot, cyclops-eyed Earl of Mountwarlock and overseen by his butler Phantomsby, " one of the few practising werewolves left in the Midlands ".

They go to get in the car, but it was destroyed by the werewolves.

" A year later, he elaborated that, " In the first film, it was a family who were the werewolves.

However, with the growing backlash against horror comics in the mid-1950s, as well as the advent of the Comics Code Authority and its restrictions on horror-themed storylines ( banning stories dealing with such supernatural fare as werewolves, vampires, and such ), the series quietly was revamped into dealing with science-fiction type monsters and other mystery-suspense type tales that were permitted by the comic code.

He was created in response to the Comics Code Authority's prohibition on the use of werewolves: instead of becoming a werewolf, Karl Lykos ( whose name is a deliberate reference to lycanthropy ) becomes a were-pteranodon.

He has bested werewolves and vampires in combat as well as easily overpowered Batman, who stated that Jackie was " infinitely stronger " than himself.

Yearning for acceptance, she goes after a boy named Aiden who wrote a poem about werewolves that was surprisingly accurate with regard to their transformation.

Armstrong says Bitten was inspired by an X-Files episode on werewolves.

The resultant race was known as brethren by wolves and werewolves by humanity, but the gift became a curse as man fell out of harmony with his primal self.

It was unclear if he could control whether wounds he inflicted turned others into werewolves.

The former are generally thought to have made a pact, usually with the Devil, and morph into werewolves at night to indulge in nefarious acts.

During the Norse colonization of the Americas, it is thought by Woodward that the Vikings brought with them their beliefs in werewolves, which would manifest themselves in the folklore of some Native American tribes.

Fennoscandian werewolves were usually old women who possessed poison-coated claws and had the ability to paralyse cattle and children with their gaze.

Some werewolves have shown the ability to gain control / achieve harmony between their human and bestial sides ( Oz and his teacher in the comics ).

Older werewolves like Skorzeny and Remy had the ability to induce the change without the appearance of the pentagram, unlike Eric, who seemed to be at the mercy of the curse's cycle.

Unlike traditional fictional werewolves, Uratha may change at any time into various forms between man and wolf, though they do find this easier when the phase of the moon matches their Auspice.

* In some accounts of werewolves, a figure known as the ' Lord Of The Forest ', who usually provides the means for the change, is mentioned as well, such as the case of The Werewolf of Besançon, or that of Jean Grenier.

In folklore, and now later in fiction, the metal is said to do many things, from channel magic, to stopping evil ( including warding off or harming vampires and werewolves ), making magic mirrors, to turning water into a Healing Potion ...

Other enemies include The Brotherhood of Night ( a group of werewolves who could transform others into their werewolves by simple touch ), the cosmic Stalker from The Stars ( a predatory, malevolent cosmic vampire ), humanoid lizards and mutants.

There are also reports of werewolves ( vilkači, vilkati ) – humans who could turn into wolves.

Instead of telling the others about Veruca, he convinces her to join him in his cage on the next night they are due to turn into werewolves.

The most popular dark shape shifter souls are humans who turn into werewolves, rather than wolves.

As the vampires follow the Lycans into a subway station, the werewolves open fire with submachine guns and Rigel is killed.

" It would seem then that werewolves ( or at least their legend ) survived into later ages of Middle-earth.

Meanwhile, Wells and Cooper shoot through the floor upstairs to escape the werewolves, dropping into the kitchen.

In May, he has a dream in which his entire congregation – and then himself – transform into werewolves – before he awakens.

Players portray the Forsaken, werewolves whose duty is to maintain the balance between the spirit realms and the physical world, policing intrusions of one into the other.

A battle ensues in which William bites the cleaners and begins turning them into werewolves.

After the vigilantes are attacked, Reverend Lowe dreams that he is presiding over a mass funeral when his congregation -- including the dead bodies in the caskets -- begins to transform into werewolves before his eyes.

To do this one mutt in particular, Daniel, who has reason to hate Clay from childhood, has started turning human killers and other escaped convicts into werewolves to fight the pack.

In the Women of the Otherworld series, unlike many modern horror fiction stories, werewolves transform into full wolves in a painful transmogrification, while maintaining their hair colour and body mass, making them extremely large wolves.

Amongst many other activities, they created the modern incarnation of werewolves: combining advanced genetic re-engineering science with earthborn magic ( apparently tapping into the Wolf-Demon's power ), they bound the spirit and DNA of the captured wolf Windracer into a humanoid.