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What does lycanthropy mean?

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  1. (mythology) The act of shapeshifting between the form of a human being and an animal (usually a wolf), often done during a full moon, according to legend.
  2. A delusion in which one believes oneself to be a wolf or other wild animal.
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What follows is a wincingly uninspired plot about siblings dealing with lycanthropy and trying to discover who infected them.
A teenage werewolf tale that cleverly equates lycanthropy with menstruation, Snaps is a horror movie that apparently has something to say.
The equating of lycanthropy and homosexuality's pretty direct here and it's hard to figure out why.
For his trouble, he's cursed with a peculiar form of lycanthropy that appears to transform its sufferers into German shepherds.
On the one hand, lycanthropy referred to the reality of the werewolf, that is, the phenomenon of metamorphosis from human form to wolf.
Similar attempts to explain lycanthropy as a delusion rooted in illness have been repeated throughout the twentieth century.

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