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In a famous myth, a person can turn into a wolf or a mixed breed wolf form known as  werewolf. In several werewolf tales, this change happens at night, often under the effect of a full moon. Trust in werewolves has enlarged and waned over the Renaissance, despite sightings still being reported . In current times, werewolves are mostly present in media, from books and movies to famous music and virtual games.  As per the legend various werewolves change from human to wolf form. As a matter of fact, werewolves are typically look-like a  real wolves with fur covered bodies, V shaped ears, long protruding noses , penetrating fangs, claws and shaggy tails. Werewolves roar, snarl and chase for prey. In European mythology, the physical form of a werewolf is said to have particular indicative features such as connected eyebrows, hippocratic fingers, or hair growing beneath the person's tongue. Similarly some werewolves in current fantasy retains hybrid or in-between forms that contain wolf and human features or become more dangerous than either circumstance on its own. In some tales, a human becomes a werewolf when he or she gets bitten or scratched by a wolf. On other hand, an person may have suck water from a wolf's footprint conceived during a new moon day may become a werewolf. Miscalleanous accounts narrate that people who can guess a wolf's form through the use of spellbinding cape or sash created from the wolf's fur may become a werewolf. According to the cultural anthropologist Carol Rose, in Ancient Greece it was assumed that consuming the meat of a wolf blending with a human meat could permanently change a person into a werewolf. In several tales, it is said that werewolves can change their shape, and this mostly happens on a full moon day.  The next morning, the person who had transformed into a werewolf cannot recall that he or she had changed into a werewolf, but any wounds experienced by the werewolf while plundering at night are typically unharmed. In current tales, the most reliable way to kill a werewolf is to use ammunition created with silver mostly a bullet. This thought can have been motivated by an actual event in France in 1767, when a cultivator is said to have murdered a dangerous monster, which can be a wolf or a dog, with the help of a silver bullet. Another technique is to look at the wolf's fur, which some werewolves were said to have concealed during the daytime, when they were in human form and then affected it. This could be difficult, but as werewolves' fur were thought to be  water- resistant to most techniques of demolition. Various so-called werewolves were said to be healed of their connection by sorcery, or by questionable medical treatment, convinced to vomit and consuming vinegar. Some scholars believe that werewolf tales may have been motivated by real-life clinical conditions.The most frequently suggested medical conditions are hypertrichosis, a hereditary disorder that results in huge hair growth, and rabies, which is a diseases spread from animals