If you do why...if you dont....could you ever believe that it could happen?
2006-11-03 19:37:24 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
In folklore, lycanthropy is the ability or power of a human being to undergo transformation into a wolf. The term comes from ancient Greek lykánthropos. The word can also be used transitively, referring to the act of transforming someone else into a wolf, or werewolf.
The word lycanthropy is often used generically for any transformation of a human into animal form, though the precise term for that is technically therianthropy. Rarely, zoanthropy is used instead of therianthropy (Guiley, 192).
Folk-etymology also links the word to Lycaon, a king of Arcadia who, according to Ovid's Metamorphoses, was turned into a ravenous wolf in retribution for attempting to serve human flesh (his own son) to a visiting Zeus in an attempt to disprove the god's divinity.
There is also a mental illness called lycanthropy in which a patient believes he or she is, or has transformed into, an animal and behaves accordingly. This is sometimes referred to as clinical lycanthropy to distinguish it from its use in legends.
It is all unbeliveable stories. Can't be belived. If it is true we donot see anyone in the world changing their appearence
2006-11-04 00:36:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Art of shape changing has been pretty much lost with the demise of most of the Druid religion.Even then only a few could do an actual physical change.Most just did transference releasing their souls and asking the permission of the animal to ride along as a passenger on the surface of the animals brain.
2006-11-03 19:53:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I will always believe that the facts of this world, are by far stranger than any fiction that has ever been produced by man. So many strange things in this world is totally possible.
2006-11-04 01:44:03 · answer #3 · answered by kilroymaster 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lycanthropy...as in "turning" into a Lycan?
2006-11-03 19:42:28 · answer #4 · answered by third_syren_of_seduction 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its just a form of insanity whereone thinks he or she is a wolf or other animal.its known as clinical lycanthropy.
2006-11-03 20:33:40 · answer #5 · answered by krishna s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the why i understand it is that its a science passed down and practiced by driuds, yes i believe it but not in a horror movie sense
2006-11-03 20:04:50 · answer #6 · answered by insane illusions 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No I do not. I could never believe that it could happen.
2006-11-03 19:55:38 · answer #7 · answered by Bad Kitty 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nope i dont believe it, however if someone is insane enough he can believe its happening to him.
2006-11-03 19:39:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, because of all the legends...
2006-11-03 21:44:56 · answer #9 · answered by michaelchasarae 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
2006-11-03 19:38:59 · answer #10 · answered by cibercitizen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋