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...Werewolf of London strikes at 11:30 p.m. Friday at the Brattle. The audiences are more horrible than the shows, but both are great...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEEKEND EVENTS | 5/4/1956 | See Source »

...reach is long, and besides, it's never wise to get the Church down on one"). But God does not seem to help much. In the eyes of his friends, Diogène is a marked man. Accepted witnesses see him "in the guise of a werewolf," flapping wings like a giant bat, as a huge hog with seven lighted candles on his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Retribution in Haiti | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

...Tell A Werewolf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 14, 1945 | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

...your issue of April 16 you have a picture of a werewolf. You adorned your mythical horror with a long, bushy tail. Now, that's absolute heresy. A werewolf is bobtailed. It was by his short tail that a werewolf was ordinarily to be distinguished from a real honest-to-goodness wolf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 14, 1945 | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

...Some lycanthropologists go further, insist that the genuine werewolf has no tail at all, and that its clothes can be found not far from its kill. If struck by iron or steel, the skin on the forehead of a true werewolf splits and the naked man pops out. If the beast is freezing cold, however, it is invulnerable to everything but balls of elder pith or bullets made of inherited silver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 14, 1945 | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

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