Werewolf
c. 400 BCE – 2026 CEattested
Europe
- European Folklore
In Herodotus a tribe who turn to wolves once a year; by the sixteenth century a criminal charge that got people executed. One of the few monsters tried in court.
Known for
- transformation into a wolf
- the full moon
- tried as a crime
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.