It seems like the technical term for it, but, its also a real diesease.
Now, also, I cant find the topic, but, on another forum (not werewolf related), a person posted up about how they knew someone with Lycanthropy. Whoever this person was, she supposedly always walked on tip toes, and hid it by wearing high heels. At night she would go into her "wolf" stage and she would walk on the floor and try ripping things up. She also said that she would change into a wolf. Her parents had to keep her in her room at those stages. Ok, I know this is one of those things that are like "I know a guy and his brothers sisters cousin who had this friend said..." but still. If its a real disease, then where did the word come from?Clinical lycanthropy is defined as a rare psychiatric syndrome which involves a delusion that the affected person can or has transformed into an animal, or that he or she is an animal
I guess what im asking is the origin of the word Lycan, being used as a term for a real disease and also what werewolves are called...