Known across the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia, these supernatural entities have long haunted the edges of human experience—neither angels nor demons, but something more ambiguous, more unpredictable.
Werewolf myths are typically associated with the phases of the moon as the animal nature of the werewolf is believed to take over when the moon is full. Some scholars believe the werewolf made its debut in the Mesopotamian The Epic of Gilgamesh, the oldest known Western prose (2100-1200 BCE), when Gilgamesh jilted a potential lover because she had turned her previous mate into a wolf.
