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A werewolf
I am not going to delete the above answer, but I will improve it.
A Lycanthrope can be many things. But to me, A Lycanthrope is a person who has advanced (under force of will) To connect with an animal spirit (such as a wolf) and force the human body to use itself in ways not normal to humans. You probably will not grow fur or fangs, but your mind will change and use itself in an unnatural way.
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∙ 10y agoThe noun lycanthrope is another word for werewolf, or a person believed to be a werewolf.
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What is the Greek word for shapeshifter?
lycanthrop i think
What is the name of the half human half dog?
Youkai Werewolf, Lycanthrop, Wolf-man
Where did the the werewolf or lycanthrop myth begin please nothing from Wikipedia or similar sites?
Germany, when a man was apparently a wolf, but actually he just murdered a load of people. It's something like that.
Can you die from clinically lycanthrop?
No. Clinically lycanthropy is defined as a rare pyschiatric syndrome that involved that the affected person can or has transformed into an animal or that he or she is an animal. Its name connected to the mythical condition of lycanthropy, a supernatural affliction in which people are said to physically shape-shift into wolves. The term zoanthropy and therianthropy are also sometimes used for the delusion that. Affected individuals reported a delusional belief that they are the process of transformation into an animal or have already transformed into an animal. has been linked with the altered states of mind that accompany psychosis (the reality-bending mental state that typically involved delusions and hallucinations) with the transformation only seeming to happen in the mind and behavior of the affected person. A study on lycanthropy from the McLean Hospital reported on a series of cases and proposed some diagnostic criteria by which lycanthropy could be recognized: . A patient reports in a moment of lucidity or looking back that he he or she sometimes feels as an animal. . A patient behaves in a manner that resembles animal behavior, for example crying, grumbling, or creeping. According to these criteria, either a delusional belief in current or past transformation or behavior that suggests a person thinks of themselves as transformed is considered evidence of clinical lycanthropy. The authors go on to note that, although the condition seems to be an expression of specific diagnosis of mental or neurological illness associated with its behavioral consequences. it also seems that lycanthropy is not specific to an experience of human-to-wolf transformation; a wide variety of creatures have been reported as part of the shape-sifting experience. A review of the medical literature from early 2004 lists over thirty published cases of lycanthropy, only the minority of which have wolf or dog themes. Canines are certainly not uncommon, although the experience of being transformed into a hyena, cat, horse, bird or tiger has been reported on more than one occasion. transformation into frogs, and even bees, has been reported in some instance. A 1989 case study described how one in divided reported a serial transformation, experiencing a change from human to dog, to horse, and then finally cat, before returning to the reality of human existence after treatment. There are also reports of people who experienced transformation into an animal only listed as "unspecified ". Clinically lycanthropy is a rare condition and is largely considered to be an idiosyncratic expression of an psychotic episode caused by another condition such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or clinical depression. however, there are suggestions that certain neurological and cultural influences may lead to the expression of the human-animal transformation theme that defines, the condition. One important factor may be differences or changes in part of the brain known be involved in representing body shape (e.g., see propriception and body image). A neuromaging study of two people diagnosed with clinical lycanthropy showed that these areas display unusual activation, suggesting that when people reported their bodies are changing shape, the may be genuinely those feelings. body image distortion are not unknown in metal and neurological illness, so this may help at least part of the process. One further puzzle is why an affected person does not simply report that their body "feels like it is changing in odd ways", rather than presenting with a delusional belief that they are changing into a specific animal. There is much evidence that psychosis is more than just odd perceptual experiences, so perhaps lycanthropy is the result of these unusual bodily experiences being understood by an already confused mind, perhaps sifted through cultural tradition and ideas. Lycanthropy, a form of metal disorder in which the patient imagines him or her to be an animal.
