Case file · Cryptid
Niceros' werewolf tale
In Petronius' Satyricon (c. AD 60), set on the Bay of Naples, the freedman Niceros tells of a soldier who stripped among the tombs, became a wolf and attacked a farm's flocks, and was later found wounded in the neck as a man.
60 CE · 40.82, 14.12 · status: legend
The sceptical view
Fiction told as a ghost story at a dinner party, but it is the earliest detailed werewolf tale in Latin and shows such beliefs were current.