- Werewolves -

Servants of the Night

People able to change into wolves every full moon.

Can be killed with a silver bullet or knife made from the silver of a melted crucifix.

Corpse to be burned rather than buried, to prevent the werewolf from rising from its grave as a vampire.

In 1603, a 12 year-old shepherd boy, Jean Grenier, was tried at Bordeaux in France for eating humans. The boy claimed that a mysterious man, the Lord of the Forest, had given him a magic wolf skin & ointment that turned him into a wolf. He admitted to eating children and babies but after consulting with medical specialists, the judge called for a verdict of insanity as Jean could be sufferring from lycanthropy (a rare illness that make patients think that they can turn into wolves). Instead of being burnt at the stake, Jean was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in a monastery.

- Traits Of A Werewolf -

How to spot a likely werewolf

- Becoming a Werewolf -

Ways of becoming a werewolf

• A russian legend said that it was necessary to jump over a fallen tree in the forest, stab it with a small copper knife and chant a spell to become a wolf.
• Drinking water that collected in a wolf's paw print , water-holes frequented by wolves or eating the brains of an animal killed by wolves were sure ways of changing into a wolf.
• Eating the brains or roasted flesh of a wolf.
• Rubbing an ointment consisting of boiled wolfsbane, opium, foxgloves, bat blood and the fat of a murdered child onto one's body and by chanting certain spells. It was said that if this was done on a full moon night at midnight, he is able to turn into a werewolf. This spell is only broken by death or by stabbing his forehead three times.

- Lycanthropy -

The Werewolf Sickness

• Many of these so-called werewolves could have been suffering from a bizarre but long-recognized mental condition called lycanthropy in which sufferers believe that they can turn into a wolf at will.
• They not only behave like wolves, they also howl at the moon and attack people using their teeth and nails.
• Even today, cases of this mental illness is still reported from Europe.

- Existence Of werewolves -

Did werewolves really existed ???

One unfortunate enough to be bitten by rabid wolves or wild dogs and thus displaying wolf-like symptoms could have been mistaken for werewolves.

Two further traits of werewolves are their frothing mouths and their ability to turn anyone they bite into a werewolf (the spred of rabies, perharps).

In 1990, Hugh Trotti offered another explanation for the story of werewolves. Anubis, the jackal-headed deity, was the ancient Egyptian god of Death. He was worshipped by a cult whose priests wore a wolf-like mask representing him. This cult was eventually transferred to Rome and by the first century AD, statues of a jackal-headed human figure called Hermanubis were numerous there. Germanic troops recruited into the Roman armies could have observed the priests in their wolf-like masks and seen the jackal-headed statues and spoken of them after the Roman Empire's fall.

A distorted accounts of these could have led to the inspired legends of humans who could transform into wolves.

So, do U still believe in werewolves ???

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