The concept is probably prehistoric. The trope of people turning into animals is found in the folklore of most cultures around the world; is a core concept of shamanism and clan structure. (The Hurons clans were based on animal ancestors).
The earliest instance of a man turning into a wolf is from the Kingdom of Arcadia. (An aboriginal culture of Greece that predates the Greeks). King Lycaon offered human sacrifice to Zeus who when he discerned it to be human flesh turned him into a wolf. It is from Lycaon that we have the term Lycanthropy.
Greek myths origiated from Greece in 800bce
in about 13000 B.C.
Greece.
from algeria
True, most stories about star-shaped figures do not originate from the Bible and are just religious myths.
A werewolf.
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Myths
myths
A:Yes. While, for example, the creation and Flood stories may have antecedents in earlier myths, the Exodus story is one example that appears to be an entirely Hebrew myth.
One of the Seven Sister (Pleiads) Merope married Sisyphus (or Sophos, "very wise").
if they get scratched by any werewolve