See were wolf on Wiktionary
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"ref": "The Polar star of Entertainment and Popular Science, 1830",
"text": "All these tortures he resisted till the hangman gave him an intoxicating draught, and under its influence he confessed that he was a were wolf after all."
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"ref": "Alexandre Dumas, The Wolf Leader, 1857",
"text": "\"Ah! Madame!\" they said, \"what is the use, what can we do against a were wolf?\""
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"ref": "Ferran Alexandri, The Big Book Of Fantastic Creatures, 2009, ISBN 8120749138",
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