Definition of "werwolf" [werwolf]

• Variant of werewolf. (noun)

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• "Although Ruth Fielding had reason to believe that the police authorities trusted the Countess Marchand and were sure of her loyalty, many of the peasants about the chateau believed that the werwolf was the unfortunate countess herself in diabolical form."
• "From this it is obvious, then, that the werwolf is a hybrid of the material and immaterial -- of man and Elemental, known and Unknown."
• "At the rate the girl had seen the "werwolf" flying over the fields, he must have covered that distance faster than an automobile."