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threshershark (profile) wrote,
on 5-30-2004 at 9:33pm
Music: Paper Gown -- Midlake
Subject: W3R3W01V35


I've been researching werewolves for a book I was thinking about starting, most of what I've found is interesting but unfortunetly contradicts my ideas.

The werewolf superstition arose in Coln, Germany. You could become a werewolf one of two ways. The most popular is to have and enchanted belt cut from the hide off the back of a dead wolf or a hanged man. The second was to put on a wolf's pelt, breath in hallucinagines and invoke pagan gods to turn you to wolf form. If you do either of these things, you would have sold your soul to the devil and be doomed to damnation.

Werewolves could not be killed with regular bullets, they'd just bounce off. In order to kill a werewolf you'd need to either shoot it with a silver bullet or attack it with a knife face to face. Sometimes, you can force a werewolf back to his human form by either saying the werewolf's real name or throwing a charm (usually a silver dagger tied to a leather strap) over the wolf.

Peasents usually resorted to becoming a werewolf if they were very poor and needed food very badly. Using superhuman werewolf strength, they would attack and eat horses, sheep and their own enemies. People who turned into werewolves would be driven by an all-consuming hunger. When they transformed back into humans they would usually complain about stomach aches because they ate so much.

If a werewolf was caught, they were either killed as a wolf or burned at the stake in their human form. Only a priest could destroy wolf straps.


And that's about it. Kindof dissapointing; I like the western view of them better, it's not so dark. Germans= morbid.
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KTHPKC

05-30-04 10:14pm

Hey now! Germans=cool

Except for me, I'll be your morbid case if you want ^_~

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threshershark

Re:, 05-30-04 10:48pm

Well, read their original folk tales once. It's weird.

"And then Sleeping Beauty was raped by Prince Charming. Luckly she gave birth to her baby in her sleep, who then pulled out the needle from her hand."

"Snow White ate the poisend apple and was forever condemned to hell."

"Then Cinderella's sisters cut off their big toes and part of their heel in order to fit the glass slipper".

"Little Red Riding Hood continued to eat the meat, yet unaware that she was consuming her own mother's flesh".

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KTHPKC

Re: Re:, 05-30-04 11:13pm

Oooh! Ooh! Huff puff! I knew about the Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood stuff!

Interesting...d'ya have the site w/ all that wonderful information? Bitte? *begs*

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Angel_Bob

05-30-04 10:23pm

Wow. That's so not what I heard/learned.

Wow. Really disappointing.

Love you.

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