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Silver Bullets Are Mostly a Movie Invention
Horde Monster Fact #21: Silver Bullets Are Mostly a Movie Invention

The idea that only silver can kill a werewolf is much more a product of 20th-century films, like The Wolf Man (1941), than of older European folklore, which described many other methods of dispatching a werewolf.
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‘Clinical Lycanthropy’ Is a Real Psychiatric Term
Horde Monster Fact #20: 'Clinical Lycanthropy' Is a Real Psychiatric Term

Separate from werewolf folklore, clinical lycanthropy is a documented, extremely rare psychiatric delusion in which a person believes they are transforming into an animal, most often a wolf.
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The Word ‘Werewolf’ Is Nearly a Thousand Years Old
Horde Monster Fact #19: The Word 'Werewolf' Is Nearly a Thousand Years Old

The term “werewolf” comes from Old English “wer” (man) plus “wulf” (wolf), and shape-shifting wolf-human legends can be traced back even further, appearing in ancient Greek mythology through figures like Lycaon.
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Nosferatu Almost Didn’t Survive Legal Trouble
Horde Monster Fact #18: Nosferatu Almost Didn't Survive Legal Trouble

The 1922 film Nosferatu was an unauthorized adaptation of Dracula. Bram Stoker’s estate sued, and a court ordered all copies destroyed, though some prints survived and preserved the film for later audiences.
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