wer-
variant of were-.
| [1802 Scott Minstrelsy II. 100 A wild story of a warwolf, or rather a war bear.] 1838 Court Mag. XIII. 261 A curious story of a wer-bear..is quoted by Sir Walter Scott. 1902 Folk-lore June 157 note, The wer-tiger beliefs, which are held..by the Peninsular Malays. 1904 G. C. Keidel Man-Fox in Japanese Tradit. 1 (MS.) The werfox, if we may so call him, is invisible. 1925 C. K. Meek North. Tribes Nigeria I. 184 The villagers next day taxed the British officer with the death of the Galadima, who was known to be a wer-hyena. |