The Exorcism of [a Dogman(?) from] Cindy Sauer

Yeah, a lot of people, even people not talking about dogmen exactly, all use words describe things that are also attributed to dogmen by eyewitnesses, and not just one or two things but a lot, usually almost all from what I've heard.

As for the shapeshifter thing, people say it's dark magic practitioners, as if the dark magic itself is what gives them their power. Perhaps it could also be that the shapeshifters are already who they are, and the "Dark magic" is just their form of religion, potentially? Maybe even a part of their "society" as it were?

Not that I'm saying that dogmen are shapeshifters absolutely, I'll need to see one for myself before I stand in on any of the theories, but just saying for the sake of argument.

I mean if it is true that they are essentially Lycanthropes, it really begs the question of if it's an infection via bite or through intercourse (as I've heard somewhere, I think on this forum) or genetic by passing it down through the bloodline. Because if it's an infection, it does make you wonder if some of these disappearing people haven't been bit by these things, or grabbed by them at least, rather than killed. Because I've heard of them taking people more than killing them, although both of those are pretty rare themselves.