werehyena
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]werehyena (plural werehyenas)
- A mythological or folkloric shapeshifter capable of assuming the shape of a hyena.
- 1943, Thomas Alexander Lambie, Boot and saddle in Africa[1], page 48:
- People believed that the werewolves, or werehyenas, which they called buda, were too strong in those places to permit safe habitation by human beings.
Translations
[edit]shapeshifter assuming the shape of a hyena
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