In late nineteenth century Asaba, in the Igbo region of what is now Nigeria, witches were often thought to be werewomen, and a close connection was thought to exist between all women and witchcraft.
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The transformation is also forced in the graphic novels Curse of the Were-Woman by Jason M. Burns and Christopher Provencher, where an inveterate womanizer is cursed by an angry jilted lover and witch, causing him to become a woman at night.
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Werewomen in the form of wolves are a popular theme in modern popular fiction and the idea was also used in Victorian fiction to explore the issue of women's rights and women's sexuality in, for instance, the The Were-Wolf, by Clemence Housman and works by Frederick Marryat.