Pricolici

The mythological character of the Romanian mythology, a werewolf, able to transform into a wolf or a dog. They were provided with a tail, claws, and covered in wolf fur, they have sharp dog face with long ears, front legs are longer than rear or Vice versa, gray disheveled like the hyena withers. For some ideas, they have one half of the body of a man and the other like an animal (dog, bull, bear, badger). They can look like a big black dog with a white chest or white wolf with a long tail.

They could become the heads of the wolf packs: to lead the wolves to help them find loot, distribute it among them (in this function they are closer together, the Romanians with the Christian saints such as Peter, Andrew and Nicholas). There was a belief that they could turn into Strigoi, which in turn could also turn into wolves and dogs.

Communication with pricolici in Romanian mythology also has lynx, for example, said that lynx laughs as people, as descended from prikolica, she pointed out the wolves to attack livestock, etc Pricolici have some traits of vampires, for example, bloodlust. Here you can mention the legends, saying that if pricolici will hurt and suck their own blood was shed, it will again become a man, but the wound will remain, and that if prikolica the dog bites, he also becomes human, but his body will continue to grow wool.

The so-called:

• of the dead risen from the grave in the form of a wolf or dog, rarely other wild animals;
• living people are able to turn into wolves or dogs;
• the souls of the dead, turned into dogs, which people were afraid as the devil, and after once again become human beings, which in this case has risen;
• the devils turned in dogs and cats;
• animals in the form of people or dogs, the evil spirits in the form of wild animals, descended from wolves devour man
• illegitimate children, born with a tail;
• the ninth of the brothers born in the same month;
• man who accidentally drank wolf urine;
• the child of incest between father and daughter or mother and son (he runs away from his parents and runs until you feel the despair of loneliness, and then percularities three times through the head and turns into a wolf, a dog or other animal, tearing mad all counter).

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