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The word "Lycans" come from the greek way of saying werewolf "Lycanthropes". More info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werewolf


The term lycanthropes come from an ancient King of Arcadia who Zeus turned into a wolf for serving him human flesh so the term lycan has a more ancient source than werewolf. There has been some distinction made between werewolves and lycanthropes. A werewolf is able to create other werewolves by biting and not killing a person where a lycanthrope passes on the ability genetically to its offspring.

A lycan is short for lycanthrope, which is a human who can transform into an animal. 'Were' means man in a different language (idk what language) and so it means man-wolf. In some stories there are other creatures like this, such as a werebear, wererat, etc. Vampires have nothing to do with lycans or werewolves.

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