Stories of men turning into beasts go back to antiquity. In parts of ancient Greece, werewolf myths, presumably stemming from prehistoric times, became linked with the Olympian religion. In ancient Rome, anyone who was supposed to have been turned into a wolf by means of magic spells or herbs was called versipellis (“turnskin”).
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