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werewolves

Cultural

Legendary human beings who are magically transformed into wolves. Werewolves supposedly prowl at night, devouring babies and digging up corpses, and cannot be killed with ordinary weapons. They are particularly associated with the full moon.

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Brandy Carlton, one of Torres’s first customers, buys the biggest package every year and sometimes incorporates a theme like werewolves or skeletons into the design.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 26, 2025

She was also known for the Night World novels, which also feature vampires as well as witches, werewolves and shapeshifters, who secretly live among the human race.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2025

In Forks, a thriving commerce has grown up around the “Twilight” saga, drawing a steady stream of visitors to wander where its fictional werewolves and vampires roam.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2024

“An Earth with climate change and nuclear war and, like, zombies and werewolves is still a way better place than Mars.”

From Salon • Nov. 27, 2023

“But surely werewolves don’t kill, they just turn you into one of them?”

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

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