Arewerewolvesanimalswhotaketheshapeofhumansorhumanswhotaketheshapeofanimals?

Actually the myth of a werewolf isn't totally a myth. There is a disease, a porphyria, where people grow excessive hair, particularly over the face, can't stand daylight, and, believe it or not, but totally true, have teeth that do glow in the dark due to a fluorescent substance being present. This is what gave rise to the werewolf myth, they only went out at night, were extremely hairy, and their teeth glowed. Now the rest IS a total myth, they don't howl at the moon, they don't rip the throats out of people.

Well, theoretically, if there was some other type of "werecreature", like a wercat or something, then it's possible it would be called such. Although, if my memory serves me right, wolves are just the most common because that was the animal in Europe that people back in the dark ages thought was the scariest. The legend of people turning into animals goes back much further than that.

After all, take the Egyptian gods and goddesses for example. While not all were, most were a combination of human and animal in appearance, and Anubis was the only one close to a werewolf, as he was a jackal. Some of them were even a combination with an animal that we'd never think of, like Geb who was human and scarab and Selket who was human and scorpion (sometimes, anyway).

OOH! I know alot on the subject Im a mythology freak cant you tell?

It may have been a virus transferred by rabid wolved right down since medevil times right down to the age of pilgrims who were very supersticious.

Even today theres a symptom called lycanpropeacy ( mis - spelled ) during full - moon people with this become rabid, violent, out of control etc.

There have been reported children raised by wolves in places around the wilderness and probably take on there characteristics of his/ her animal parents.

About the silver hmmm... well im not saying that all were-wolves will be evely merely cursed and would have a few resistances and obviously improved regeneration. The virus will have flaws and weaknesses so It is possable that the skin of one wont be easy to penetrate.

Even the indians souly believed to be able to shapeshift into such animals and dress up in animal skins constantly, at one with nature.

I hope this answeres your question.

Were wolves are humans who change into wolves, and nothing else. Humans who change into other animals would have other names (in Harry Potter it's animaligus or something like that), as would wolves or other animals who change into humans.

I see you've done your research. Problem is i don't accept any theory, not unless it comes with good back up evidence as well. So and although i wouldn't go as far as thinking your theory totally wrong, i'd say give me proof!

The only place you're gonna find one of those bad boys is in films and folk-lore honey.

and the question is???

Yes..there are other "Types" of Polymorphous beings out there...

One might be..a Bear..Ggrowlfr!!

Too bad its a myth, and not real.

just a myth

ya ive heard bout were snakes ,were tigers !!