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This section contains information about phenomena that are generally believed to have a supernatural, mystical nature, and the very existence of which is currently in doubt.Phenomena Hierarchy

Rugarou

Added	Tue, 29/11/2022
Hierarchy	Phenomena Паранормальные способности Оборотень Ругару
Область распространения	France
Характерные признаки	→ → → → → → → →
Sources	scarystory.ru bestiary.us wattpad.com darkbook.ru

Rugarou (Rougarou, Roux-Ga-Roux, Rugaroo, Rugaru) is a type of werewolf, representing a man with a wolf's head or a "hybrid" of a man with a dog, pig, cow or even a chicken (only white). The word comes from the French Loup-garou, which means werewolf.

Their body does not transform, but "turns inside out, quickly, without any physical inconvenience and pain." The transformation does not depend on the phases of the moon (either the witch herself takes this form, or sends a curse on a person).

If such an enchanted one sheds the blood of another person and the curse passes on to him, and the former cursed one is "freed". According to another legend, the rugaru is under a spell for 101 days, and after this period the curse itself passes to another person bitten by the rugaru.

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