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Lycanfloofpy

Lycanfloofpy (floofinition) – a delusion that a housepet has become a wolf; a housepet’s assumption of the form and characteristics of a wolf held to be possible by witchcraft, magic, or quantum mechanics. mais 36 palavras

Humor

lycanthropy

lycanthropy


Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for October 31, 2018 is:

lycanthropy • \lye-KAN-thruh-pee\ • noun

1 : a delusion that one has become a wolf… mais 199 palavras

Words

Werewolf Week, Religious Returns: St. Augustine on Lycanthropy

In discussing tales of Diomedes’ companions being turned into birds, Augustine in De Civitate Dei (City of God) discusses werewolves (18.17, the full text… mais 419 palavras

Latin

GeekOut Shrewsbury October ’18 – Lycanthropy

You’ll excuse me if I was glad of a quieter GeekOut this month, it’s been an exhausting few weeks, culminating in being unwillingly decorated for Hallowe’en last Friday. mais 570 palavras

Events

Ritual Sacrifice and Lycanthropy: Pausanias for Werewolf Week

In the second century CE, Pausanias composed ten books on the sights and wonders of ancient Greece. His text provides some of the only accounts of architecture, art and culture that have been lost in intervening centuries.   mais 415 palavras

Greek

Werewolf Week In Rome: Don't Look a Wolf in the Eyes!

Here is the rather famous account of Werewolves from Pliny the Elder’s Natural History 8.34) (for the full text: see Perseus). The Latin text on Perseus is incorrect, but fortunately… mais 557 palavras