The history of ghosts, ghouls and other scary creatures – A wicked encyclopedia of scary creatures

GHOSTS

In folklore, a ghost is the soul or spirit of a dead person or non-human animal that is believed to be able to appear to the living.

Werewolf

in European folklore, a man who turns into a wolf at night and devours animals, people, or corpses but returns to human form by day. Some werewolves change shape at will; others, in whom the condition is hereditary or acquired by having been bitten by a werewolf, change shape involuntarily, under the influence of a full moon. If he is wounded in wolf form, the wounds will show in his human form and may lead to his detection. Belief in werewolves is found throughout the world. The psychiatric condition in which a person believes he is a wolf is called lycanthropy.