James Kennedy Cole, age 13, of Indianapolis, Ind., for his question:

WERE THERE EVER REAL WEREWOLVES?

Werewolves are strictly imaginary and a part of many fiction tales. First found in very old stories, the werewolf was a man who put on a wolf skin, drank water from a wolf's footprint and then rubbed magic ointment on his skin. And suddenly he was a wolf.

It all probably came from the king in Greek mythology named Lycaon who was turned into a wolf by the god Zeus. From his name comes lycanthropy, a form of mental illness in which a person imagines himself to be a wolf. Lycanthrope is also the technical name for werewolf.

Werewolves in most stories try to eat people. One way to find out a werewolf's identity is to wound it and then look for a human with similar wounds.

Isn't imagination interesting?