		Werewolves: Werewolf, Lycanthropy, Warg, Wepwawet, Beast of Gévaudan, Cynocephaly, Lykaia, Valais Witch Trials, Peter Stumpp Paperback. Books LLC 2010-05-22. ISBN 9781156664926
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Werewolf, Lycanthropy, Warg, Wepwawet, Beast of Gévaudan, Cynocephaly, Lykaia, Valais Witch Trials, Peter Stumpp, Clinical Lycanthropy, Rougarou, Werewolf Witch Trials, Buda, Wolf of Magdeburg, Beast of Bray Road, Lycaon, Gilles Garnier, Loogaroo, Man Into Wolf, Agriopas, Vârcolac, Pricolici, the Boy and the Wolves, Damarchus, Wulver. Excerpt: Agriopas was a writer of ancient Greece mentioned by Pliny the Elder . He was the author of an account of the Olympic victors , called the Olympionicae . His exact date is unknown. Agriopas is also sometimes cited by writers on werewolf mythology. These writers have handed down Agriopas' tale of Demaenetus of Parrhasia who, during the Arcadian sacrifices for the festival of Zeus Lycaeus , tasted the viscera of a human child, and was turned into a wolf for ten years. At the end of those ten years he supposedly became a man again and competed in the ancient Olympic Games . "Agriopas" was also in some manuscripts of Pliny given as the name of the father of Cinyras , rather than Apollo . Whether this is genuine or an error remains a matter of some debate. References (URLs online) This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870). A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at The Beast of Bray Road (or the Bray Road Beast ) is a cryptozoological creature first reported in the 1980s on a rural road outside of Elkhorn, Wisconsin . The same label has been applied well beyond the initial location, to any unknown creature from southern Wisconsin or northern Illinois that is described as having similar characteristics to those reported in the initial set of sightings.Bray Road itself is a quiet country road near the community of Elkhorn. The rash of claimed sightings in

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