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lycanthropy The local farmers avoided the residents of the village in the next valley, who had long been suspected of grave robbing and lycanthropy. lycanthropy*

Accepted Answer

(1) A delusion that one has become a wolf. (2) Transformation into a wolf through witchcraft or magic. The Greek word for “wolf,” lykos, combines with the anthro- root to produce the meaning “wolfman.” In European folklore, dating back to the ancient Greeks and Romans, there are men who change into wolves at night and devour animals, people, or graveyard corpses before returning to human form at dawn. Werewolves, or lycanthropes, may be evil and possessed by the devil, or may instead be the victims of a werewolf bite and thereby cursed to change into wolf form at the full moon. The werewolf's evil intention is shown by its eating only part of the animal or corpse, rather than all of it like a truly hungry wolf.

word	lycanthropy
definition	(1) A delusion that one has become a wolf. (2) Transformation into a wolf through witchcraft or magic.
eg_sentence	The local farmers avoided the residents of the village in the next valley, who had long been suspected of grave robbing and lycanthropy.
explanation	The Greek word for “wolf,” lykos, combines with the anthro- root to produce the meaning “wolfman.” In European folklore, dating back to the ancient Greeks and Romans, there are men who change into wolves at night and devour animals, people, or graveyard corpses before returning to human form at dawn. Werewolves, or lycanthropes, may be evil and possessed by the devil, or may instead be the victims of a werewolf bite and thereby cursed to change into wolf form at the full moon. The werewolf's evil intention is shown by its eating only part of the animal or corpse, rather than all of it like a truly hungry wolf.
IPA	lycanthropy*

Wolf Change Form Evil Lycanthropy Delusion Transformation Witchcraft