In Romanian folklore is the Pricolici, a malicious shapeshifter. It's often considered a type of werewolf entity but it's more than that. It's undead, or the manifestation of a soul transported into a Pricolici, a shapeshifter that could appear either as a human being or an animal, mostly a wold. Their purpose is to cause dangerous serious harm and fulfil a curse. Other Romanian versions believe the Pricolici was once a deceased werewolf but came back as a vampire. It helped to explain the belief that vampires could transform into animals. A Pricolici is nocturnal. People fear these entities and some have sought protection against them. It's understood that a Pricoloci is different to the average wolf, because it attacks quietly and alone, it has a connection to a particular victim such as a person who was cursed, or who is a member of the same family, while curses can attack the same bloodlines.
As recent as the 1950's a certain family was targeted by the same "wolf" who savagely attacked all of the relatives including a woman named Maria. They lived in a remote village near the Banat Mountains. There had not been any wolves in the area for over a century. Yet this strange wolf appeared out of nowhere, and attacked several members of this family. Some of the survivors were left with terrible scars, and others were killed. Only the little daughter was spared as though the dangerous wolf purposely didn't want to hurt the child. One day this wolf was tracked down and then killed by a hunter. It turned out that this wolf was female with only two mammary glands. There was no trace of the she-wolf to be found to indicate where she had been living. It was said that a long time ago, a relative of the family were given a curse by an old woman before she died. Some believe that this she-wolf was the old woman who returned from the dead to fulfil the curse on the family.
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