were-wolf

English

Noun

were-wolf (plural were-wolves)

1. Alternative form of werewolf
   • 2013, Matthew Beresford, White Devil, →ISBN, page 118:

     For its part, the vivid imagery of Servian folklore states that 'the power to become a were-wolf is obtained by drinking the water which settles in a foot-print left in the clay by a wolf.'

   • 2014, Henry Fanshawe Tozer, A History of Ancient Geography, →ISBN, page 86:

     This fancy Herodotus regards with incredulity, but his mention of it is none the less valuable, for the were-wolf is a figure which constantly appears in modern folk-lore.

   • 2017, Sabine Baring-Gould -, The Book of Were-Wolves:

     If traditions of were-wolves are scanty in England, it is quite the reverse if we cross the water.