In Myth and Popular Culture
Catherine Clark Kroeger has written that several parts of the Bible refer to King Nebuchadnezzar's behavior in Daniel 4 as a being manifestation of clinical lycanthropy.
Neurologist Andrew J. Larner has written that the fate of Odysseus’s crew at the hands of Circe may be one of the earliest examples of clinical lycanthropy.
Episode 13 of season 1 of the Fox television series Mental, "Bad Moon Rising" (2009), tells the story of a man who suffers from clinical lycanthropy, who believes he can transform into a bloodthirsty wolf-like animal at full moon and fears he will harm innocent people.
The movie Birdy (1984) by Alan Parker, based on the novel of the same name by William Wharton, tells the story of a troubled boy who has a morbid fixation with birds. After the trauma of being sent to the Vietnam War, he develops a dissociative psychiatric disorder that makes him think he has transformed into a bird.
The Cow (Persian: گاو, Gāv) is a 1969 Iranian movie directed by Dariush Mehrjui. A middle-aged Iranian villager called Hasan, who owns a cow, gradually goes insane following a nervous breakdown and believes he is the cow, adopting such mannerisms as eating hay.
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