Lycanthropia
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
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- 1 Alternative form of lycanthropy. alt-of, alternative, uncountable
"Of this Fury there be divers kindes,[…]. The moſt knowne are theſe, Lycanthropia, Hydrophobia, Chorus ſancti viti. Lycanthropia, which Avicenna calles Cucubuth, others Lupinam inſaniam, or Woolfe madneſſe, when men runne howling about graues and fields in the night, and will not be perſwaded but that they are Wolues, or ſome ſuch beaſts."
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More examples"Of this Fury there be divers kindes,[…]. The moſt knowne are theſe, Lycanthropia, Hydrophobia, Chorus ſancti viti. Lycanthropia, which Avicenna calles Cucubuth, others Lupinam inſaniam, or Woolfe madneſſe, when men runne howling about graues and fields in the night, and will not be perſwaded but that they are Wolues, or ſome ſuch beaſts."
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