A History of Werewolves

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A History of Werewolves
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Traits

• Shape Shifter
• Cursed
• Can change from man into wolf
• Voluntary
• Involuntary
• Superhuman Strength and Senses

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Origins

• Attempts to Explain
• Serial Killings
• Cannibalism
• Mutilation
• Mass Murder
• Common in Rural areas
• Combination of actual wolf attacks and peasant
  superstition

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Folk Beliefs

• Identification
• Attributes
• Metamorphosis

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Vulnerabilities

• Wolfs Bane
• Immune to Religious Artifacts
• Silver Weapon (does not appear until 1800s)
• Rye and Mistletoe
• Mountain Ash

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Remedies

• Exhaustion
• Strike on the forehead with Scalp or Knife
• Piercing the Hands with Nails
• Address 3 times by Christian name
• Conversion to Catholicism

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Literature

• "The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains" The
  Phantom Ship Marryat (1839)
• Hugues, the Wer-Wolf Sutherland Menzies (1838)
• Wagner, the Wer-Wolf G.W.M. Reynolds (1847)
• The Wolf-Leader Alaxander Dumas (1857)
• Hugues-le-Loup Erckmann-Chatrian (1869)
• Running Wolf The Wendigo Algernon Blackwood
• The Were-wolf Clemence Housemen (1896)
• The Werewolf of Paris Guy Endore (1933)
• Darker than you Think Jack Williamson (1940)
• The Wolfen Whitley Striber (1978)
• The Wild Whitley Striber (1991)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban J.K.
  Rowling (1999)
• New Moon (2006), Eclipse (2007), Breaking Dawn
  (2008) Stephanie Meyer

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Film

• Werewolf of London (1935)
• The Wolf Man (1941)
• The Undying Monster (1942)
• The Howling (1981)
• An American Werewolf in London (1981)
• Underworld (2003) Underworld Evolution (2005)
  Underworld 3 Rise of the Lycans (2009)

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European Culture

• Evil men who terrorized people at the command of
  the Devil
• The Beast of Gevaudan (1764-1767) see also
  Brotherhood of the Wolf (2003)
• Loup-Garou (Canada, Midwestern U.S.)
• Beast of Brey Road
• Wolf of Magdeburg