The Inuit tribespeople have a legend about the Adlet, the dog people, the offspring of a great red dog and an Inuit woman. This beast/human marriage produced five ugly weredogs and five regular dogs, and the disgusted mother set them all adrift on rafts.
The five dogs eventually reached the shores of Europe and begot among them the various white ethnic groups. The weredogs evolved into horrible, bloodthirsty monsters who still haunt the northern icelands in search of human flesh.
Sources:
Larousse Dictionary of World Folklore. New York: Larousse, 1995.
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