Mythical Creatures You May Want to Believe Existed

Werewolf

A werewolf or also known as lycanthrope is a mythological or folkloric human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf or a therianthropic hybrid wolf-like creature. The legend of the werewolf is one of the most ancient and widespread. These shapeshifter myths can be found all over the world from China to Iceland and Brazil to Haiti. There are results that werewolf carries a disease called lycanthropy and this condition is transmitted through a bite from another werewolf. With a combination of various existing diseases if presented in a virus like state it could be really possible to happen. The condition, Hypertrichosis, is an abnormal amount of hair growth together with a form of rabies. Just like rabies, the virus would give the afflicted a strong desire to bite and cause hydrophobia, the fear of water and even holy water.

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