Abnormally Normal
There are werewolf legends in Russia, Sweden, England, Germany, Greece, Italy– throughout Europe and beyond.
Aztecs and other ancient peoples of the Americas had their nahuaks.
Native American tribes have their own version, which we translate as skin-walkers. (If you’ve read Patricia Briggs’ books, you’ve seen the term. What an intriguing take she has on this form of shifting!)
Serbia managed to combine two horrors in the wurdalak—a werewolf who dies and becomes a vampire.
Ireland was so saturated with tales of werewolves that until the 18th century, the English sometimes referred to it as “the Wolfland.”3