[Christine's Halloween Monster and Faery List]

Shapeshifters

Cúfael (Wolf Dogs) Dorchan (Black Wolves) Bisclaveret, Loup-garou (Werewolves)
Brittany, France. Shapeshifting humans who turn into wolves. Large and grey, with yellow eyes. Their wolf leader is a wizard called le Meneur des Loups: The Leader of the Wolves. Creatures that live in Ireland People have gotten lost at their capital city. Lycanthropy is a mental disease where people think they are wolves and can be caused by hallucinogenic drugs.

According to Pliny: Natural History, viii. They had to pass through the purgatory of nine years as wolves before they could resume their human forms.(15, 16, 107, 210)


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