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Wererat vs. Werewolf — What's the Difference?

Wererat vs. Werewolf — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Wererat and Werewolf

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Wererat

(fiction) A shapeshifter who can assume the shape of a rat.

Werewolf

In folklore, a werewolf (Old English: werwulf, "man-wolf"), or occasionally lycanthrope (Greek: λυκάνθρωπος lukánthrōpos, "wolf-human"), is a human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf (or, especially in modern film, a therianthropic hybrid wolflike creature), either purposely or after being placed under a curse or affliction (often a bite or scratch from another werewolf) with the transformations occurring on the night of a full moon. Early sources for belief in this ability or affliction, called lycanthropy , are Petronius (27–66) and Gervase of Tilbury (1150–1228).

Werewolf

A person believed to have been transformed into a wolf or to be capable of assuming the form of a wolf.

Werewolf

(mythology) A person who is transformed or can transform into a wolf or a wolflike human, often said to transform during a full moon. Category:en:Horror

Werewolf

A person transformed into a wolf in form and appetite, either temporarily or permanently, whether by supernatural influences, by witchcraft, or voluntarily; a lycanthrope. Belief in werewolves, formerly general, is not now extinct.
The werwolf went about his prey.
The brutes that wear our form and face,The werewolves of the human race.
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Werewolf

A monster able to change appearance from human to wolf

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