Perhaps, she worries, he has another lover, and their happy home is a den of lies; compared to this specter, his
lycanthropy, however terrifying, seems almost to be a relief since it rules out his infidelity.
A good reception for
Lycanthropy and maybe one day he will have the opportunity to find out
That said, Rowling's language frequently points away from a racial interpretation of
lycanthropy. When Lupin describes his origins--"I was a very small boy when I received the bite.
This jarring judgment against the woman simultaneously exonerates the baron for his
lycanthropy and exculpates the knight for his role in the crime, and marks the narrator's full abandonment of the wife (Bruckner 255).
Now, four individuals find within themselves the power of
lycanthropy awakened, the Wolf, Boar, Tiger and Rat.
Besides that, associations of CS with other syndromes are described, such as catatonic syndrome [18], malignant neuroleptic syndrome [19],
lycanthropy [20], hydrophobia [21], and capgras syndrome [22, 23].
The uniting premises of all four sections are clearly established by the editors in their introduction, which underscores the transformations and retransformations of the figure of the vampire throughout history and various cultures and looks to science for possible sources of vampirism and its links to
lycanthropy. This collection is one of the most comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and well-written collections on the topic so far and succeeds in bringing together innovative research that is both specifically focused and extensive and wide-ranging as it provides updated scholarship on the ever-so elusive vampire figure.
The practices of totemism, (3)
lycanthropy, and shamanism, among others, reflect this understanding.
Indeed, the original serial presents the werewolf curses of Chris Jennings and Quentin, whereas Burton introduces us to the character of Carolyn (Chloe Grace Moretz), Elisabeth's rebellious daughter, the troubled adolescent, whose aggressiveness is thus explained through the association (frequently evidenced by both critics and film directors) between
lycanthropy, menstruations and the lunar cycles governing both.
The recipes and relationships of The Changeling exhibit "the cosmological undercurrents of antipathies and sympathies" (26), and the experimentation and
lycanthropy present in The Duchess of Malfi enters into the world of demonology.
Hirsch, "An Italian Werewolf in London:
Lycanthropy and The Duchess of Malfi" Early Modern Literary Studies 11.2 (2005): 1-43, 2.
Apart from fundamental themes such as murder, suicide, torture, dread, madness, the horror fiction deals with vampires, ghosts, succubi, incubi, poltergeists, Doppelgangers, demonic pacts, diabolic possession, exorcism, witchcraft, black magic, voodoo,
lycanthropy, sometimes telekinesis.
