Abnormally Normal
In the stories, men transmogrified into hairy creatures either at will or under the spell of some external force, such as a full moon.
Writing in the 2006 book The Curse of the Werewolf: Fantasy, Horror and the Beast Within, Chantal Bourgault du Coudray points out that the werewolf has a longstanding documentary history: In the sweeping poem "Metamorphoses," Ovid tells the tale of Zeus turning a king into a wolf. In "Satyricon," written by the 1st century Roman writer Petronius Arbiter, one man watches another turn into a fur-covered beast. By the 7th century, scholars were documenting a medical disease in which patients believed they were wolves.
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