- a variation of werewolf.
werwolf
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They say the werwolf was here long before the war.
From Ruth Fielding In the Red Cross Doing Her Best For Uncle Sam by Emerson, Alice B.
"Follow," the lasses said, "the werwolf we have started."
From Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell by Various
Again the werwolf bounded upon the singing children, but Israel routed him with his club.
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel
Nor is this inconsistency only characteristic of the movements, actions, and shape of the werwolf.
From Werwolves by O'Donnell, Elliott
There, if they hear a cry like the cry of a seagull, it will mean that I have seen the werwolf.
From The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere by Coster, Charles de
There is no restriction as to the sex of werwolves in Russia and Siberia—male and female werwolves are about equal in number, though perhaps there is a slight preponderance in favour of the female.
From Werwolves by O'Donnell, Elliott
Hence one could fill a dozen volumes with the stories, many of them well authenticated, of French werwolves.
From Werwolves by O'Donnell, Elliott
France, especially, was infested with werwolves in the sixteenth century.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women by Ellis, Havelock
The terrible temper—for the rage of the Bersekir has been a byword for centuries—commonly attributed to Icelanders and Scandinavians in general, is undoubtedly traceable to the werwolves and wer-bears into which the Bersekirs metamorphosed.
From Werwolves by O'Donnell, Elliott
He was attacked by three werwolves and saved himself by leaping into a rye-field.
From Werwolves by O'Donnell, Elliott
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