History Indo-European comparative mythology thumb|upright|Dolon wearing a wolf-skin. Attic red-figure vase, . The European motif of the devilish werewolf devouring human flesh harks back to a common development during the Middle Ages in the context of Christianity, although stories of humans turning into wolves take their roots in earlier pre-Christian beliefs.
History Indo-European comparative mythology thumb|upright|Dolon wearing a wolf-skin. Attic red-figure vase, . The European motif of the devilish werewolf devouring human flesh harks back to a common development during the Middle Ages in the context of Christianity, although stories of humans turning into wolves take their roots in earlier pre-Christian beliefs.