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Werewolf Folklore and Myths Explained

This document is a research paper on werewolf folklore written by Fernando Gonzalez for his English II class. It discusses the history and traditions of beliefs about werewolves in various cultures around the world. The paper cites sources that describe lycanthropy in ancient and modern times, including beliefs held by African tribes and depictions of werewolves and monsters in folklore. It also references the use of computer graphics and animatronics to portray werewolves in modern films.

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Werewolf Folklore and Myths Explained

This document is a research paper on werewolf folklore written by Fernando Gonzalez for his English II class. It discusses the history and traditions of beliefs about werewolves in various cultures around the world. The paper cites sources that describe lycanthropy in ancient and modern times, including beliefs held by African tribes and depictions of werewolves and monsters in folklore. It also references the use of computer graphics and animatronics to portray werewolves in modern films.

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Fernando Gonzalez

Mrs. Shumate

English II

12 May 2017

Werewolf Folklore

It encompasses the traditions common to that culture, subculture or group. Ancient belief

in lycanthropy was widespread, and it still exists in parts of the world. Certain African tribes

have their "leopard men" and the like, and literatures all over the world have tales of men

changing to animals. (Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia).A werewolf is someone what eats

human flesh or drinks human blood of a living.(Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia). I conclude

that werewolfs are people that turn into werewolfs and eat human flesh to survive.

The mythologies and legends of ancient and modern cultures teem with an enormous

variety of monsters and imaginary beasts. A great number of these are composites of different

existing animals and of human beings and animals. (Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia). The

Native North Americans, particularly the Eskimo, who have no epic hero, have created a vast

panorama of monsters, ogres, bodiless heads, cannibal mothers, and semi human

beasts.(Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia. I conclude that it relates to the answer because it

talks about history of werewolfs.

The animal is far from ordinary: it is a werewolf. In animal form, the beast--created

using computer graphics--is a vicious, spellbound hunter serving an evil queen. In human

form.(Moltenbrey, Karen).An animatronic to accomplish all the wolf close-ups, and employ
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computer graphics for what were to be no more than seven fairly wide shots of the animal

leaping and such.(Moltenbrey, KarenP). I conclude that it is part of the answer.

Still, witches and werewolves that haunted the minds of French demonologists such as

de Lancre and Bouguet causing fear among rich and poor alike, lost some of their

potency.(Kathryn A. Edwards). When it came to alleged witch activities and changes of humans

into were wolves, people had long memories. Once tainted, a family often bore the burden of

possible accusations for generations to come.(Kathryn A. Edwards). That werewolf do and how

they live.
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"Monsters and Imaginary Beasts." Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6Th Edition, Apr. 2016,

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Moltenbrey, Karen. "Big, Bad Wolf." Computer Graphics World, vol. 28, no. 10, Oct. 2005, pp.

28-445. EBSCOhost,

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William, Gerhild Scholz. "Werewolves, Witches, and Wandering Spirits: Traditional Belief and

Folklore in Early Modern Europe." Catholic Historical Review, vol. 92, no. 4, Oct. 2006, pp.

660-661. EBSCOhost,

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