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Word for Wednesday: Werewolf

Halloween is going to be different this year, but we’re still excited to celebrate all things spooky and scary in this month’s Word for Wednesday articles.  Last week we looked at the word ghost and today’s word is werewolf.   So what exactly is a werewolf?   Sometimes referred to as a man-wolf or a lycanthrope, the werewolf suffers an affliction which forces it to change from a human to a wolf or wolf-like creature at the full moon. A human usually becomes contaminated after being bitten or scratched by another werewolf.  The werewolf crops up in stories across Europe and evil shapeshifters appear in mythology from all over the world. Humans...

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