Werebear vs. Werewolf

Werebearnoun

(fiction) A shapeshifter who can change between bear and human form

Werewolfnoun

(mythology) A person who is transformed or can transform into a wolf or a wolflike human, often said to transform during a full moon.

Werewolfnoun

A person transformed into a wolf in form and appetite, either temporarily or permanently, whether by supernatural influences, by witchcraft, or voluntarily; a lycanthrope. Belief in werewolves, formerly general, is not now extinct.

Werewolfnoun

a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf

Werewolf

In folklore, a werewolf (Old English: werwulf, ), or occasionally lycanthrope (Greek: λυκάνθρωπος lukánthrōpos, ), is a human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf (or, especially in modern film, a therianthropic hybrid wolflike creature), either purposely or after being placed under a curse or affliction (often a bite or scratch from another werewolf) with the transformations occurring on the night of a full moon. Early sources for belief in this ability or affliction, called lycanthropy , are Petronius (27–66) and Gervase of Tilbury (1150–1228).