From the Greek lykanthropos - lykos translates as wolf; anthropos as human being. A psychosis or paranoid schizophrenic state in which an individual suffers delusions of being a wild animal, usually a wolf (perhaps Cogito sum lycanthrope would be more definitive). Not infrequently, bizarre and chaotic sexuality is expressed in a primitive way through the lycanthropic symptom complex. Patients whose internal fears exceed their coping mechanisms may externalize them via projection and can constitute a serious threat to others. Such individuals have been feared down through the ages because of their tendencies to commit bestial acts and were themselves hunted and killed by the populace. Records state over 30000 werewolves were arrested during the 16 century.
WereWolf : (Wer : from the old English for man.) is a anthropophagocytic entity, drawn from ancient documents and oral traditions, capable of changing from human form to wolf and back again. There is no "accepted" evidence indicating humans can indeed "shape-shift" into wolves or their variant intermediate states, under lunar influences or otherwise, (oddly enough the same level of evidence allows an unshakable belief in evolutionary shape-shifting) Those uncomfortable with the concept of bimorphism have speculated that certain excessively hairy individuals resemble wolves and that the legend of the werewolf may have a basis in the genetic disorder known as Hypertrichosis or in some other endocrine disorder, such as adrenal virilism, basophilic adenoma of the pituitary, masculinizing ovarian tumors, or Stein-Leventhal syndrome. Alternatively "they" hypothesise that the uneducated masses of previous centuries were just a bunch of superstitious country hicks who would believe any old story. Another theory postulates that the rye bread of the poor across mainland Europe was often contaminated with the fungus ergot, which caused hallucinations and delusions about werewolves. This puppy below should collectively void their incredulous bowels.