Thursday, April 3, 2008

A werewolf by any other name...

Nearly all of the following terms and definitions come from Sabine Baring-Gould's The Book of Werewolves; numbers in {brackets} indicate pages on which the terms are introduced and/or discussed.

church-dog, bar-ghest, pad-foit, wush-hound "animal haunting a churchyard" {106}
Lycanthropy:wolves::Kuanthropy:dogs::Boanthropy:cows {8}
versipellis "one who can change his skin" (Latin) {12}
loup-garou [pl., loups-garoux] "werewolf" (French) also: lou garol {2, 4, 106, 107}
eigi einhamir, eigi einhammr "not of one skin" (Norse) {15, 16}
hamrammr "man in beast form" {16}
gandreid "wolf's-ride" {17}
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/g/gandreid.html
vargliki "werewolf" {28}
Ulf "wolf" {36}
Ulfhamr "wolf-shaped" {36}
Ulfhednar [pl., Ulfhednir] "dressed in wolfskin" {36}
Berserkar [pl., Berserkir] "dressed in bearskin" {36}
kveldulfr, Kveldulf "evening wolf" or "twilight wolf" {43}
vargr "wolf" or "godless man" or "werewolf" (Norse) {48}
vargr (Norse) = were (English) = garou, varou (French) {48}
u-argr "restless" {48}
var-ulf "werewolf" (Danish) {48}
vaira-ulf "werewolf" (Gothic) {48}
wearg "scoundrel" (Anglo-Saxon) {48}
vargs "fiend" (Gothic) {48}
wargus "outlaw" {48}
verevulf "werewolf" or "outlaw" {48}
utlagh "outlaw" (Anglo-Saxon) {49}
louleerou [pl., louleerous] "werewolf" {106}
varga mor "wolf-witch" {108}
vrkolak "werewolf" (Bulgarian/Slovakian) {114}
vlkoslak "werewolf" or "vampire" (Serbian) {115}
wawkalak "werewolf" (White Russian) {115}
oborot "one transformed" (Russian) {117}
vilkodlak, vlkodlak, vlkolak "werewolf" (Slovakian) {117, 124}



A search for "werewolf" on the Mythical Creatures and Beasts Wiki turns up the following information:

Albania = oik
France = loup-garou
Greece = lycanthropos
Spain = hombre lobo
Mexico = hombre lobo and nahual
Bulgaria = varkolak
Turkey = kurtadam
Czech Republic/Slovakia = vlkodlak
Serbia/Montenegro/Bosnia = vukodlak
Russia = vourdalak
Ukraine = vovkulak(a), vurdalak(a), vovkun
Croatia = vukodlak
Poland = wilkolak
Romania = vârcolac, priculici
Macedonia = vrkolak
Scotland = werewolf, wulver
England = werewolf
Ireland = faoladh or conriocht
Germany = Werwolf
Netherlands = weerwolf
Denmark/Sweden/Norway = Varulv
Norway/Iceland = kveld-ulf, varúlfur
Galicia = lobisón
Portugal = lobisomem
Lithuania = vilkolakis and vilkatlakis
Latvia = vilkatis and vilkacis
Andorra/Catalonia = home llop
Hungary = Vérfarkas and Farkasember
Estonia = libahunt
Finland = ihmissusi and vironsusi
Italy = lupo mannaro


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