The lycanthropy is just a delusion zooanthropic, a survivor of the era in which the man was an animal and the lifestyles of primitive men and the wild today.
For advocates of this theory, become a wolf is to reverse the chain hominization, a return to the animal from which we come by evolution. We survive on ideas, attitudes and behaviors of our ancestors.
We ancestral tendencies in us, and these can manifest itself in certain moments of our lives, and can disturb our consciousness today. Behavior that have resulted from lycanthropy memories and totemic influences and evil, magic, that take us back to a certain point in the chain of hominization and remind us of the states through which we passed before reaching the current state. Is identified with a love that serves as a totem.