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Garou
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Garou may refer to:
- A word from the French "loup-garou", meaning "werewolf".
- Additionally a Japanese word, . Despite the coincidental spelling, it has no etymological ties to the French word.
- Garou (singer) a Québécois singer.
- Garou (World of Darkness), the race of werewolves in White Wolf's World of Darkness role-playing game.
- Garou Densetsu ("Legend of the Hungry Wolf"), the Japanese title of the Fatal Fury fighting games, created by SNK for the Neo-Geo system.
- Garou: Mark of the Wolves, the ninth and final game in the Fatal Fury series for the Neo-Geo hardware.
- According to legend the Garou is someone who can change into a wolf and then back into human form. They said it would track down hunters or trappers as its usual victims. It's a legendary creature in French communities with ties to European notions of the werewolf and very common across French Louisiana. According to the Cajun legend it prowls swamps around Acadiana and Greater New Orleans and is normally noted to have a human body with a canine head like the werewolf. The stories of the Garou were often told to scare children into behaving or to scare Catholics to follow the rules or Lent. They said that if you broke Lent seven years in a row you yourself would become a werewolf. Legend has it that the Garou would be under the spell for one-hundred-one days then it would be passed onto another when the Garou drew another's blood. At day the creature would take its human form often acting ill. They would not tell anyone of their curse, fearing they'd be killed.
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