'Tis the full moon, my lovely,

Did you know that the "were" in werewolf is the Old English word for man?  So werewolf is manwolf - that is, a man who can transform into a wolf.  And although we tend to think that the concept is Edwardian/Victorian, along with vampires and Frankenstein's monster and such, it actually goes back way beyond that.  There is reference to the "werewulf" in the laws of King Canute back around the year 1000, and the ancient Greeks told stories of the "lycanthrope" which has the same etymology - "lykos", wolf and "anthropos", man. Make you think there might be something in it, eh??