Many tribes and military organizations have taken the wolf as their totem animal and considered themselves as werewolves :

• The mongols of Gengis Kahn who submitted most of Europe called themselves the "wolves"

• The Berksekr were german and scandinavian tribes who disguised themselves as wolves or bears during battles. The appropriation ritual celebrated by the sorcecer was supposed to give them the strengh of the animal.

• The Lombards or "DogŒs heads" were fierced soldiers during the religion wars.

• The extreme rightist party "Organization Werewolf" created in 1923 in France by Fritz Klappre de Halle.

• The resistants from Otto Skorzemy to Mussolini in Italy

More about warriors

Perhaps a more or less respectable form of lycanthropy is the berserker of the Vikings and the ancient Germans. This was a man who believed that he could transform himself into a bear when the need arose. They dressed in bear skins, and wore bear claws. In battle, berserkers became like enraged beasts. They threw down their swords and bit their enemies with their teeth. They were insensible to pain and knew no fear. Apparently the berserker rage was under control, most of the time, but ordinary people lived in terror of such savage warriors since they never knew what small incident might trigger the fury. The rage of the berserker was passed down in an hereditary line from father to son -- it does not appear to have afflicted women. It may have been a genetic disorder, but more likely it was a manifestation of shamanism, the knowledge of which was also passed down within families -- the berserker was very likely a form of shape-shifter.