Versipellis

Versipellis (-is, m.)Plin. Nat., VIII.34 est quidam in mythologia et historiis popularibus de metamorphosi qui voluntate formam suam mutare potest. Ex versipellibus, notissimi sunt fortasse lycanthropi, qui ex homine in lupum mutantur. Versipelles noti sunt ab temporibus antiquissimis, et narrationes de metamorphosibus versipellium in carminibus de Gilgamo enarrantur.

Notae

Bibliographia
Child, Franciscus Iacobus (1965). The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. 1. Dover Publications. 
Jones, Stephanus (1995). The Fairy Tale: The Magic Mirror of Imagination. Twayne Publishers. 
Morel, Corinna (2004). Dictionnaire des symboles, mythes et croyances, Paris, L'Archipel. 
Smith, Fridericus (2006). The Self Possessed: Deity and Spirit Possession in South Asian Literature. Columbia University Press. 
Steiger, B. (August 1999). The Werewolf Book: The Encyclopedia of Shape-Shifting Beings. Visible Ink Press. 

Berserkeri
Metamorphosis
Metamorphoses (Ovidius)
Monstrum
Teen Wolf et Mythologia in fabulis Teen Wolf
Vampyrus

Categoria:Cryptidae
Categoria:Mythologia