Bestiarum Vocabulum: Cynanthrope

The Bestiarum Vocabulum is the wizard’s encyclopedia of faerie beasties and mundane crossovers living in the lake and forest near Lita’s castle.

Cynanthrope
Cynanthrope

cynanthrope [sy-nan’- thrōp] noun, c.1680; Gr kun-, kuōn ‘dog’ + anthrōpos ‘man’ < Fr cynanthropie (after lycanthropie ‘lycanthropy’); also cynanthropy (the spell that causes the transformation) and weredog.

  1. Denizen of the Clockpunk Wizard world.
  2. A shapeshifter who alternates between dog and human forms.
  3. Personages: Furgo in Forever Boy, Ephraim’s Curious Device, and Old Bony Blue Eyes.
  4. See “Treasure Under Furgo-Boy’s Bed” and “Go Fer and Furgo

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  1. […] Treasure Under Furgo-Boy’s Bed, Go Fer and Furgo, and Bestiarum Vocabulum: Cynanthrope for more about Furgo and […]

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  2. […] magic. Only the most talented mages acquire a familiar that is a magical hybrid, such as a cynanthrope, werecat, or […]

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