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  2. Werewoman - Wikipedia

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    Werewoman. Male and female werewolves being executed in a broadside, Werewolves from Jülich, printed by Georg Kress, 1591. In mythology and literature, a werewoman or were-woman is a woman who has taken the form of an animal through a process of lycanthropy. The use of the word "were" refers to the ability to shape-shift but is, taken ...

  3. List of werewolves - Wikipedia

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    Bran Cornick. Patricia Briggs. Mercy Thompson series, Alpha and Omega series. Bran Cornick is the most dominant werewolf in North America. He is more commonly known as The Marrok, who is the Alpha of all American Alpha Werewolves. He is witch-born on his mother's side, the Cornick Witch. Mitome Saizaki.

  4. Werewolf fiction - Wikipedia

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    Werewolf fiction. Adventures into Darkness, a Golden Age comic book series that ran for 10 issues from August 1952–1954. Werewolf fiction denotes the portrayal of werewolves and other shapeshifting therianthropes, in the media of literature, drama, film, games and music. Werewolf literature includes folklore, legend, saga, fairy tales, Gothic ...

  5. Werewolf - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. List of fictional wolves - Wikipedia

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    The last wolf in England, raised by humans, pursued by the Hunter. Gmork. The Neverending Story. Michael Ende. Servant of the power behind The Nothing tasked with killing Atreyu before he can save Fantastica. Hopper. The Wheel of Time. Robert Jordan. Hopper is a friend and teacher of the wolfbrother Perrin Aybara.

  7. Wolf - Wikipedia

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    Global wolf range based on IUCN's 2023 assessment. [1] The wolf (Canis lupus; [b] pl.: wolves), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America. More than thirty subspecies of Canis lupus have been recognized, including the dog and dingo, though gray wolves, as popularly understood, only comprise ...

  8. Werewolves of Ossory - Wikipedia

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    The male wolf pulls down the wolf skin of the female, revealing an elderly human female underneath, to reassure the priest that he is not committing blasphemy. After the priest has given communion to the woman/she-wolf, the male wolf leads him out of the woods and gives him a number of prophesies about the future of Ireland and its English ...

  9. Asena - Wikipedia

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    Asena. Asena is the name of a she- wolf associated with the Gokturk foundation myth. [1] The ancestress of the Göktürks is a she-wolf, mentioned yet unnamed in two different "Wolf Tales". [2] The legend of Asena tells of a young boy who survived a battle; a female wolf finds the injured child and nurses him back to health.