“It doesn’t hunt like a wolf. It waits like a gravedigger — laughing, always laughing — because it already knows you’ll die eventually.”
Werehyena as depicted in medieval bestiary
The Werehyena or Were-Hyena (were-hyena)(plural: Werehyenas or Were-Hyenas), or Hyenaman (also spelled Hyena-Man or Hyena Man), also called the Hyenanthropy (plural: Hyenanthropies), Hyenanthrope (plural: Hyenanthropes)(from Ancient Greek ὕαινάνθρωπος means ‘hyena-man’), Hyenanthropic (plural: Hyenanthropics), or simply Hyenan (plural: Hyenans) is a mammalianthropic individual who can shape-shift into a hyena. or especially in modern days, a therianthropic hybrid hyena/human-like being, either purposely or after being placed under a curse or affliction, often a bite or the occasional scratch from another werehyena, with the transformations occurring on the night of a full moon.
- The word “Hyenanthropy” originates from a portmanteau of ancient Greek words, hýaina [ὕαινα]. And Anthropos [ἄνθρωπος], meaning human or person; man or woman. So the term translates to ‘hyena person’ or even ‘hyena human (man/woman)’.
Hyenanthropy transformation refers to the mythical or fictional process by which a human transforms into a hyena or a hyena-human hybrid, but unlike cynanthropies, hyenanthropy can involve transformation into any kind of hyenas, such as brown hyenas, spotted hyenas, aardwolves, striped hyenas, etc. Depicting all humans in hyena form, known as the Hyenomorphism (singular: Hyenomorphist) or Hyenanism (singular: Hyenanist).
- Hyenanthropism (singular: Hyenanthropist) is a therianthropic representation of deities in combined human and hyena form.
- Hyenotype (plural: Hyenotypes) is a mammalianthropic animal that is from hyena identifies as (From hyeno- + type).
other words based of hyenanthropes are:
- The Hyenakin (plural: Hyenakins).
- The Hyaenidanthrope (plural: Hyaenidanthropes), also known as the Hyaenidanthropy (plural: Hyaenidanthropies), Hyaenidanthropic (plural: Hyaenidanthropics), or simply Hyaenidan (plural: Hyaenidans).
