Were-hyena

The were-hyena is similar to werewolf but is a hyena that transforms into a human. Unlike werewolves, were-hyenas don't need the full moon to transform. Were-hyenas use night and darkness to hunt. They can be far more scarier than werewolves and stories of these entities are found across many cultures in Africa, Asia and Europe. 

They're associated with blacksmiths because the craft has been regarded as a form of wizardry by some people and were-hyenas are beings of magic and the paranormal. Were-hyenas are also blamed for destroying crops, slaughtering livestock, killing people, digging up corpses from graves to eat and other nasty activities. 

These creatures can be dangerous alone but they often work in infamous packs of other were-hyenas, always at night and resuming human form in the day. A creepy method of luring human victims is by calling someone by their own name. The way to identify a person as a secret were-hyena is to look out for shining red eyes, hairiness and a smell of rot. 

The bite of a were-hyena is more powerful than that of a werewolf. The were-hyena is much bigger than a werewolf, and in the natural world, a spotted hyena is larger than the grey wolf. We know that hyenas "laugh" so the were-hyena laughs to scoff at their victims. 

Posted by She Wolf Night