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Werewoman, the Glossary

In mythology and literature, a werewoman or were-woman is a woman who has taken the form of an animal through a process of lycanthropy.^[1]

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LGBT themes in mythology
Shapeshifters
Women in mythology

African Affairs

African Affairs is a peer-reviewed academic journal published quarterly by Oxford University Press on behalf of the London-based Royal African Society.

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Asaba

Asaba (Igbo: Ahaba) is the capital of Delta State, Nigeria.

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Broadside (printing)

A broadside is a large sheet of paper printed on one side only.

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C. L. Moore

Catherine Lucille Moore (January 24, 1911 – April 4, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, who first came to prominence in the 1930s writing as C. L. Moore.

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Clemence Housman

Clemence Annie Housman (23 November 1861 – 6 December 1955) was an author, illustrator and activist in the women's suffrage movement.

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Conan the Barbarian (also known as Conan the Cimmerian) is a fictional sword and sorcery hero who originated in pulp magazines and has since been adapted to books, comics, films (including Conan the Barbarian and Conan the Destroyer), television programs (animated and live-action), video games, and role-playing games.

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Early modern period

The early modern period is a historical period that is part of the modern period based primarily on the history of Europe and the broader concept of modernity.

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Elizabeth Isichei

Elizabeth Mary Isichei (née Allo; born 22 March 1939) is a New Zealand author, historian and academic.

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Folklore

Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture.

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Frederick Marryat

Captain Frederick Marryat (10 July 1792 – 9 August 1848) was a Royal Navy officer and a novelist.

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Graphic novel

A graphic novel is a long-form work of sequential art.

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Hallucinogen

Hallucinogens are a large and diverse class of psychoactive drugs that can produce altered states of consciousness characterized by major alterations in thought, mood, and perception as well as other changes.

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Igboland

Igboland (Standard), also known as Southeastern Nigeria (but extends into South-Southern Nigeria), is the indigenous homeland of the Igbo people. It is a cultural and common linguistic region in southern Nigeria. Geographically, it is divided into two sections by the lower Niger River: an eastern (the larger of the two) and a western one.

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Jülich

Jülich (in old spellings also known as Guelich or Gülich, Gulik, Juliers, Ripuarian: Jöllesch) is a town in the district of Düren, in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Jean de Nynauld

Jean de Nynauld was a French physician who wrote an important work on lycanthropy in 1615 titled De la lycanthropie, transformation et extase des sorciers (On lycanthropy, transformation and ecstasy of witches).

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Lebanon

Lebanon (Lubnān), officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia.

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LGBT culture

LGBT culture is a culture shared by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals.

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Liberia

Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast.

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Lunar phase

A lunar phase or Moon phase is the apparent shape of the Moon's directly sunlit portion as viewed from the Earth (because the Moon is tidally locked with the Earth, the same hemisphere is always facing the Earth).

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Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics is an American comic book publisher and the property of The Walt Disney Company since December 31, 2009, and a subsidiary of Disney Publishing Worldwide since March 2023.

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Old English

Old English (Englisċ or Ænglisc), or Anglo-Saxon, was the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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Out-of-body experience

An out-of-body experience (OBE or sometimes OOBE) is a phenomenon in which a person perceives the world as if from a location outside their physical body.

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Peter Brown (historian)

Peter Robert Lamont Brown (born 26 July 1935) is an Irish historian.

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Rat

Rats are various medium-sized, long-tailed rodents.

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Shapeshifting

In mythology, folklore, and speculative fiction, shapeshifting is the ability to physically transform oneself through unnatural means.

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Succubus

A succubus (succubi) is a female-looking demon or supernatural entity in folklores who appears in dreams to seduce men, usually through sexual activity.

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Supernatural

Supernatural refers to phenomena or entities that are beyond the laws of nature.

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Transgender

A transgender person (often shortened to trans person) is someone whose gender identity differs from that typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth.

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Victorian literature

Victorian literature is English literature during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901).

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Werecat

A werecat (also written in a hyphenated form as were-cat) is an analog to "werewolf" for a feline therianthropic creature.

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Werehyena

Werehyena is a neologism coined in analogy to werewolf for therianthropy involving hyenas.

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Werejaguar

The werejaguar was both an Olmec motif and a supernatural entity, perhaps a deity.

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Werewolf

In folklore, a werewolf, or occasionally lycanthrope (λυκάνθρωπος|lykánthrōpos|wolf-human|label. Werewoman and werewolf are Shapeshifters.

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Witch-hunt

A witch-hunt, or a witch purge, is a search for people who have been labeled witches or a search for evidence of witchcraft.

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Witchcraft

Witchcraft, as most commonly understood in both historical and present-day communities, is the use of alleged supernatural powers of magic.

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Wolf

The wolf (Canis lupus;: wolves), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werewoman

Also known as Were-woman, Werewomen.

Werewoman, the Glossary

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See also

LGBT themes in mythology

Shapeshifters

Women in mythology

References