Monday, June 8, 2009

Universal Lycanthropy

Folklore, fairy tales, and legends of many nations and people show belief in creatures who live alternately as men or women or animals, borrowing the shapes of vultures who roamed their homelands.
In Europe, the wolf is the dominant animal form for shape shifters. Wolves appear in almost every country and sub-culture. In countries oor regions of the world where wolves are scarce, or not present at all, humans are portrayed as transforming into bears, leopards, tigers, or hyenas etc...

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