There actually have been a few cases of modern lycanthropy, but most of them are in rural areas. Modern lycanthropy is
more of a mental change, then a physical change that was believed in the modern ages. Many professionals have tried
to diagnose it by calling it: schizophrenis, organic brain syndrome, psychosis, psychotic depressive reaction, hysterical
neurosis, or even psychomotor epilepsy. The following are a few cases. Their names are not mentioned for privacy
reasons, and they are from the book A Lycanthropy Reader: Werewolves in Western Culture by Charlotte F. Otten. If
you are at all interested in werewolves I recommend purchasing this book.

Are they werewolves...

A 49-year-old woman presented on an urgent basis for psychiatric evaluation because of delusions of being a wolf and
"feeling like an animal with claws." She suffered from extreme apprehension and felt that she was no longer in control of
her own fate: she said, "A voice was coming out of me." Throughout her 20-year marriage she experienced compulsive
urges toward bestiality, lesbianism, and adultery.

The patient chronically ruminated and dreamed about wolves. One week before her admission, she acted on these
ruminations of the first time. At a family gathering, she disrobed, assumed the female sexual posture of a wolf, and
offered herself to her mother. The episode lasted approximately 20 minutes. The following night, after coitus with her
husband, the patient suffered a 2-hour episode, during which times she growled, scratched, and gnawed at the bed.
She stated that the devil came into her body and she became an animal. Simultaneously, she experienced auditory
hallucinations. There was no drug involvement or alcoholic intoxication.

Another case is of a 37-year-old single male farmer from Appalachia. At the time of his service in the United States
Navy he had a normal and average IQ. Since his discharge after four years of service he has progressively and
insidiously failed to function both as a farmer and in his daily activities. He has episodically behaved in a bizarre
fashion, allowing his facial hair to grow, pretending that it was fur, sleeping in cemeteries and occasionally lying down
on the highway in front of oncoming vehicles. There is also a history of patient howling at the moon. Following two of
these occasions, he was admitted to a psychiatric hospital. On the first admission he was given a diagnosis of
"psychosis and mental deficiency". During his second hospitalization, he was diagnosed as suffering from chronic
undifferential schizophrenia, based on his bizarre behavior since delusions or hallucinations could not be elicited while
he was in the hospital. During his third hospitalization, one year after his second, the patient explained his bizarre
behavior by saying that he was transformed into a werewolf.

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