One may become infected with lycanthropy by physical contact with a were-beast in human or bestial form. Some researchers believe that even the consumption of food prepared by a lycanthropist is enough to carry the infection.
Other supersitions on Ways to Become a Werewolf
In the Balcanic Peninsula, where the famous Transylvania is located, grows a flower that, people say, if eaten, causes the eater to aquire Lycanthropy.
To drink from the water filling a wolf track, or to eat the brains of a real wolf are other popular ways still believed in Europe to become, accidentally or intentionally, a werewolf.
Being a child conceived under a new moon
Being born on a full moon friday (Italy)
Being born on the winter solstice or Christmas Eve (Italy)
Being the elder son of priest
Being the 7th of 7 consecutive (Germany).
Drinking water out of the footprint of a savage wolf
Drinking downstream from wolves or from where a wolf pack has drunk
Drinking from haunted streams or pools (in the Harz Mountains in Germany)
Eating the brains or flesh of a wild wolf
Having tasted human flesh.
Getting bitten by a werewolf
Having sex with a werewolf and survive
Wearing the enchanted skin of a dead wolf or werewolf.
Plucking or wearing or smelling the lycanthropic flower (Balkans)
Wearing a belt made of the skin of a executed criminal
Sleeping at night on Friday while the light of the full moon shines in your face (Italy)
Not going to confession for 10 years
Being murdered
Native American mythology
Native American mythology is quite interesting as the metamorphosis is not only viewed as curse but as a way to get closer to Nature and one’s totemic animal. This method would also probably include those who gain such a spirit through meditation or dreams. This is the source for many "spiritual werewolves. Shamanic rituals are often complicated and secret depending on the tribes�?own beliefs. It and can also be apply to other animals.
Being called by the wolf spirit.
Having a vision of the wolf spirit on a dream-quest
Having a Dreaming that one is a wolf or running with wolves
Performing a ritual taught by one's animal spirit
Being cursed by a shaman
Performing a ritual invoking the wolf spirit
\Were"wolf`\, n.; pl. Werewolves. [AS. werwulf; wer a man + wulf a wolf; cf. G. w["a]rwolf, w["a]hrwolf, wehrwolf, a werewolf, MHG. werwolf. [root]285. See Were a man, and Wolf, and cf. Virile, World.] 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. 
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