Qutrub
The Qutrub (also spelled Qutrub) is a type of werehyena from Arabian folklore, a shape-shifting creature that combines human and hyena traits. According to the 10th-century scholar al-Mas'udi, the Qutrub was created from a split egg of a female jinn — its counterpart being the Marid (powerful sea jinn). The Qutrub is described as resembling a cat-like creature that haunts graveyards, eating corpses. Pre-Islamic Arabs considered the Qutrub a type of jinn or demon closely associated with death and transformation. Like the European werewolf but with a hyena as its base form, the Qutrub can shift