Lycanthropia (Disease)

Lycanthropia is the result of a rare genetic mutation in Blutbaden. Lycanthropes are driven temporarily insane during the three nights of the full moon and are, as Hank described them, "Like a Blutbad on steroids." The disease is transmitted to Blutbaden offspring as a recessive trait.

Because Blutbaden families traditionally dealt with the situation by killing any offspring who started developing symptoms of the disease, Monroe thought Lycanthropia had been eradicated about a century ago. Specifically, Blutbaden families killed their afflicted offspring by burying them alive. Lycanthropes will attack their own family when the disease physically manifests itself, and Lycanthropes also have a unique scent all unto themselves that is similar to the scent of a Blutbad.

A human injured by a Lycanthrope can be infected via an open wound, but to what extent currently remains unknown.