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In modern rural Mexico, nagual is sometimes synonymous with brujo ("wizard"); one who is able to shapeshift into an animal at night (normally into a dog, owl, bat, wolf or turkey), drink blood from human victims, steal property, cause disease, and the like. In some indigenous communities the nagual is integrated into the religious hierarchy.
Clinical lycanthropy is a rare psychiatric syndrome that involves a delusion that the affected person can transform into, has transformed into, or is a non-human animal. [1] Its name is associated with the mythical condition of lycanthropy , a supernatural affliction in which humans are said to physically shapeshift into wolves. [ 2 ]
In folklore, a werewolf [a] (from Old English werwulf 'man-wolf'), or occasionally lycanthrope [b] (from Ancient Greek λυκάνθρωπος, lykánthrōpos, 'wolf-human'), is an individual who can shape-shift into a wolf, or especially in modern film, a therianthropic hybrid wolf-like creature, either purposely or after being placed under a curse or affliction, often a bite or the occasional ...
The wolf was born in captivity and released into the wild, bringing genetic diversity that biologists say is critical to the recovery of the species. Authorities investigate the killing of a ...
The existence of a ritual that provides one with the ability to turn into a wolf. [13] Such a transformation may be related either to lycanthropy itself, a widespread phenomenon, but attested especially in the Balkans-Carpathian region, [12] or a ritual imitation of the behavior and appearance of the wolf. [13]
Residents and schoolkids in Mexico City helped squads of police in a long-winded pursuit of a wolf loose in one of the city's neighborhoods, authorities said. Citizens and police officers chased ...
Werebat: Human with the ability to change into a bat-like form, appears in modern fiction. [4] [5] Werecoyote: Human with the ability to change into a coyote form comparable to a werewolf, [6] appears in modern fiction. [7] [8] [9] [6] It has been associated with America. [6]
The Mexican wolf, a subspecies of the gray wolf, was listed as endangered in 1976, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Thousands of these animals once lived across New Mexico, Arizona ...