Werewolf vs. Wolfsbane — What's the Difference?

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).

See aconite.

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

A poisonous aconite (Aconitum lycoctonum) of Eurasia, having racemes of usually yellowish flowers.

(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

Any of several poisonous perennial herbs of the genus Aconitum.

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.

A poisonous plant (Aconitum Lycoctonum), a kind of monkshood; also, by extension, any plant or species of the genus Aconitum. See Aconite.

A monster able to change appearance from human to wolf

Poisonous Eurasian perennial herb with broad rounded leaves and yellow flowers and fibrous rootstock