Satyr vs Werewolf - What's the difference?
satyr | werewolf |
(Greek mythology) A male companion of Pan or Dionysus with the tail of a horse and a perpetual erection.
* Milton
(Roman mythology) A faun.
A lecherous man.
Any of various butterflies of the family Satyridae , having brown wings marked with eyelike spots; a meadow brown.
(obsolete) The orangutan.
(Webster 1913)
A person who is transformed or can transform into a wolf or a wolflike human, often said to transform during a full moon.
As nouns the difference between satyr and werewolf
is that satyr is a being who is half-man and half-goat, often symbolised with pan, the greek god of nature christianity however, tends to symbolise them with satan while werewolf is a person who is transformed or can transform into a wolf or a wolflike human, often said to transform during a full moon.satyr
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Alternative forms
* satyre (rare or archaic) * satyrus (rare)Noun
(wikipedia satyr) (en noun)- Rough Satyrs danced; and Fauns, with cloven heel, / From the glad sound would not be absent long.