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Sinding is a Nord first encountered in Falkreath jail in the quest "Ill Met by Moonlight" who is revealed to be a werewolf who was cursed by the Daedric prince Hircine for stealing a ring. Various characters with lycanthropy can be encountered throughout the game and the player has the ability to become a werewolf. Cornell
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 ...
Talbot transforms into a werewolf and kills a man, arousing the villagers. Talbot is also envied by the hunchback Daniel as both love Ilonka, a gypsy girl. She has fallen in love with Talbot but is the object of Daniel's affection. Daniel reveals Talbot's curse to Ilonka but she is not deterred and promises to help him in fighting the curse.
This coincides with the French Catholic loup-garou stories, according to which the method for turning into a werewolf is to break Lent seven years in a row. [citation needed] A common blood sucking legend says that the rougarou is under the spell for 101 days. After that time, the curse is transferred from person to person when the rougarou ...
Man into wolf: an anthropological interpretation of sadism, 2, and lycanthropy. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. ASIN B0000CI25D. Eliade, Mircea (1986). Zalmoxis, the vanishing God: comparative studies in the religions and folklore of Dacia and Eastern Europe. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0226203850. Eliade, Mircea (1995). Ivănescu ...
A List of Works Relating to Lycanthropy. New York: New York Public Library Publications, 1919. (earliest published list of werewolf fiction) Du Coudray, Chantal Bourgault. The Curse of the Werewolf. London : I. B. Tauris, 2006. ISBN 1-84511-158-3 (book on literary symbolism of the werewolf) Flores, Nona C. Animals in the Middle Ages: A Book of ...
The authorities associated lycanthropy with magic and magic with Satan, and the legal courts integrated the cases of werewolves in the witchcraft category. [22] In Mechelen, Thomas Baetens (1642) and Augustijn de Moor (1649) were accused of being werewolves in connection to their wives standing trial for witchcraft.
La Maldicion de la Bestia (The Curse of the Beast) is a 1975 Spanish horror film that is the eighth in a long series about the werewolf Count Waldemar Daninsky, played by Paul Naschy. The film has also been known as The Werewolf and the Yeti , Night of the Howling Beast and Hall of the Mountain King .