A young boy looks like a real-life werewolf, with hair enveloping his face and body, all due to a one-in-a-billion medical anomaly.

His superstitious mum, Alma, believed the boy’s appearance was due to a curse wrought upon her when she ate a wild cat while pregnant with the child.

She said that during her pregnancy, she had uncontrollable cravings for wild cats.

Alma sought out a black feline from village friends and had it sauteed with herbs – a decision she later regretted when Jaren was born.

Her neighbours kept feeding her ideas about a curse, but when she finally took Jaren to qualified doctors this month, they found out he had a medical condition called hypertrichosis.