Any country or region that has wolves seems also to have werewolves. Also werebears, wereowls, were-whatevers. The amount of folklore is so overwhelming and contradictory that it's hard to figure out what to do about them-except through plain old trial and error.
Medieval werewolf legends usually equate lycanthropy with sorcery, and with the wearing of a magical skin or belt. Dad made a note about Richard Verstegan's Restitution of Decayed Intelligence, from 1628:
Verstegan says werewolves "are certayne sorcerers, who having annoynted their babies with an ointment which they make by the instinct of the devil, and putting on a certayne inchaunted girdle, does not only unto the view of others seem as wolves, but to their own thinking have both the shape and nature of wolves, so long as they wear the said girdle. And they do dispose themselves as very wolves, in worrying and killing, and most of humane creatures." Verstegan hints that the werewolf has no conscious memory of its actions while it is transformed-"to their own thinking." Other accounts, not Verstegan's, have this hand-in-hand with a belief that werewolves can only transform while they are asleep.
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