Quoth Broomjockey
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Actually, originally the original werewolf myths were men who turned entirely into wolves and had only those two states that they could be in. By Tradition, and the original myths, half man half wolf is the oddity, but modern ideas have changed the mythos. It's only recently, in the last century or so that an anthropomorphic half man-half wolf has become the idea of the myth. IN the original myth, being bitten wasn't the only way to be turned into one. Though I doubt the speed of the transformation in th eoriginal myth is that fast.
Take the Vampire Myhtos for example, The possible Original Vampire myth was Lillith, who was a dmeonic sucubi who fed on the blood of men, then there's Lamia and Lamiae, serpentine demons who sucked blood. Compare that to the modern vampire myths, Dracula for instance and how radically different they are.
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