Werewolves, Carnal Lust & the Full Moon - Original

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CASES:

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In France in 1131, one Hugues de Camp d'A Vesnes (Compt de Saint Pil was his full title) attacked and burned to the ground the Abbey of Saint Riguier in order to get at 2 of his enemies (the Compt d'Auxi and the Compte de Beaurain-sur-Canche) who had taken refuge there. In the fire (on July 28) 3000 people died and it was said that after his own death (he was apparently punished by Louis- le-Gros who was a war lord); Hugues was seen nightly prowling near the abbey St Riguier as a wolf "howling most piteously" and sometimes he went into the streets of Abbeville.

On October 19, 1216 King John Lackland died and was said to have been poisoned by a monk and that he (sort of) became Lycanthropod when people heard "shrieks, howling and othernocturnal disturbances" from his grave so they disinterred the body and flung it on to unsacred ground to rot; the King (apparently) was afterward seen abroad as a Werewolf


There is the 17th century case of Jean Grenier and a 13 year old boy who reportedly turned himself into a werewolf and ate other people and animals. He admitted to some young women he wore a wolf skin and described eating dogs and sheep and even little girls.

He allegedly told a story of how he sold his soul to the devil and was judged September 6, 1603. His lycanthropy was called a HALLUCINATION and the boy was imprisoned in a Franciscan Friary in Bordeaux ... he died after 7 years but would run around on all fours and eat garbage and generally act like a wolf.
Which just goes to show, you really have to watch those Fransicans!


In 1521 Pierre Burgot and Michel Verdun were tried for being demonically possessed witches who could shape-change.


In 1573 Gilles Garnier of Lyon was accused of murder, Lycanthropy and Witchcraft and was executed at Dole (sentence pronounced on January 18, 1573). They said when he murdered these children of between 8 and 12 years old he was not in the form of a wolf but of a man. He would strangle them, eat some flesh, dismember an arm of leg and haul it away.


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BECOMING ONE:

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Men born on Christmas Eve become werewolves
Murdered men become one (see King John above)
Drinking water out of the footprint of a savage wolf
Eating the brains or flesh of a wild wolf (stay away from those brains, kids)
Drinking from haunted streams or pools
Plucking or wearing or smelling the lycanthropic flower
The sons of priests become ww's
A child conceived under a NEW moon
Sleeping in the open at night in the summer on a Wednesday or a Friday the light of the full moon shines in your face
Not going to confession for 10 years

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SYMPTOMS:

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Paleness
Feeble vision
Dry eyes & misted (cloudy)
Very dry tongue
Always thirsty
Legs have incurable ulcerations from frequent falls
An unnatural dread of all water, especially afraid of clear water
Long thumb nails
Eyebrows that meet
The devil's mark

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CURES:

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Draw blood to fainting
Prescribe "wholesome food"
Sweet water baths
Milk & whey for 3 days
Purging the colon & encouraging vomiting
Thyme
Wormwood
Acrid vinegar
Rub nostrils with opium before bed (seriously!)
Flogging
Must be pierced with a wooden (aspen stake)
Roll in the dew
Wash in water
Lop off the **** (drastic but effective)
Exorcism
Reproach the Wer-wolf verbally (better than lopping off a ****)
Address the Wer-wolf three times with a Christian name
Hit the Wer-wolf on the head three times with a knife
Draw 3 drops of blood
Salute with a sign of the cross

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In Romania werewolves are assumed to return to vampires after death and vampires can turn themselves into werewolves


VRYKOLAKAS can refer either to a vampire or a werewolf or even someone practising sorcery


There are lots of wolves around the forests of Europe and these wolves were always dangerous


Werewolves wander nocturnally by graveyards and sepulchres, imitating the cries of dogs


Wolves are notoriously associated with unbridled cruelty, bestial ferocity, ravenous hunger, speed, treachery, appetite and lust: lupus & lupana (meaning ****) have the same etymological root.


The Wolf is powerful also because it is the enemy of the LAMB of God


The Hellenistic Apollo is accredited with being a wolf and his worshippers sometimes dressed as wolves


Werewolf blood is black and thick


Historically, much of England (even into the 19th century) was forest and that in pre-conquest times, wolf-hunting was a sport of the ancient Britons; wolf hides were used as money and the wolf was eventually made extinct. By the 1700's (more or less) .... but Tradition has them as rare or extinct in England by the reign of Henry VII


In Ireland there were so many wolves that a special BREED of DOG (the Irish Wolf hound) was introduced to hunt them


The lycnathropic noun form is LYCOPHILE


In woodlands Indian mythology, wolves are the rulers of the country of the dead


Dogs and wolves often dug up graves to feed on bodies, hence they become the natural enemies of vampires

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I hope noone will mind my contribution of a little werewolf poem I wrote

Werewolves

that night she was all alone
when the werewolf broke in
grinnin a grin

He carried her off into the night
sceamin in her fright
only one townsman witnessed that awful sight
He gathered the people their torches to light

werewolf growl you'll howl
werewolf
on the prowl

Now the werewolf flys through the trees
quick as the wind and silent as the breeze

Only one thing could break his spell
a kiss of true love by the wishing well

she awoke in his arms
saw through the curse of hell
to the man beneath the spell
the young man was once her love

werewolf growl you'll howl
werewolf
on the prowl

The curse was broken from heaven above
as she kissed him on the cheek
with a look in her eyes oh so meek

just then a shoot rang out the werewolf cried
and there he died
by hi his true loves side

werewolf growl you'll howl
werewolf
on the prowl

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Great poem, Unknown, you have a real flair for poetry.
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Man attacks man as a wolf
By Pekka Kilpinen

Pages 54-55

In Finland, Karelia and Inkerimaa there have been two main stories about werewolves, or lycanthropes. In one story, a poor beggar or vagabond is driven from a house in which a marriage is to take place. The old man is a witch who revenges himself on the household by turning the wedding guests into wolves. According to the other legend, the victim of a boy thief has the boy turned into a wolf. In Lapland, on the other hand, evil people were believed to turn themselves into wolves or bears and eat their neighbours’ cattle and reindeer. Werewolves terrorising Swedish Lapland were Finnish or Sami witches.

Werewolves sprang up in Europe wherever there were real wolves (Canis lupus). The wolf was made extinct in the British Isles a long time ago and consequently the concept of the werewolf did not become a part of folk lore there. The phlegmatic Brits treated Continental werewolves with a good deal of scepticism. On the Continent, people’s attitudes towards these mythical creatures varied from country to country. Where there were large numbers of wolves, the werewolf was a being which was regarded as perfectly logical and was thus accepted by the people. In regions where there were few wolves, the werewolf was a fearful monster.

During the period of witch hunting and persecution, which lasted from the early 16th century up to the mid 18th century, in Europe a large number of werewolves were tried and executed, in addition to witches. The Baltic countries were at the top of the list in this respect, for it was here that werewolves were believed to be most common. At the close of the 17th century, suspected lycanthropes were merely flogged and driven from their villages, because the judges no longer believed the incredible stories told to them in court by the self-confessed practitioners of lycanthropy.


Teksti: Leigh Plester

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Legends
Date: Tuesday, October 08 @ 22:21:49 MDT
Topic: Werewolf


Argentina
Lobisón is the word that stands for Werewolf in north Argentina.
The Lobisón is usually the seventh son in a family (whereas the seventh daughter is doomed to be a witch). When they turn into a hairy creature that resembles both a man and a wolf, the Lobisón (a legend greatly influenced by the Brazilian traditions), wanders in the hills and mountains, feeding mostly upon carrion. However, if they get to meet with a human being, they will instantly attack. The survivors (men and women) will then turn into Lobisones themselves, but it is quite rare, because most people die in the claws and teeth of these ferocious creatures. It is also said that if a Lobison's saliva sprinkles over a man or a woman, he or she will eventually turn into a Lobisón.

In the early 1900s the legend of the 7th son (it had to be 7 boys in a row, no girls in between) transforming himself into a werewolf was so widespread and believed that it was causing a lot of children to be abandoned or given away for adoption, and it is said that in some cases the parents killed their own son. Because of this, the president passed a law in the 1920s by which the 7th son of a family automatically receives the godfathership of the president of Argentina! Through this, the state gives him a gold medal on the day of his baptism (when the president officially becomes his godfather) and a scholarship for all of his studies until his 21st birthday. Supposedly, this ended the phenomenon of people condemning their children for fear of the werewolf. The law is still in effect, and it is popularly known, and the presidents have always attended at least some of the baptisms, especially during election season.

Brazil
In Brazil, A humam only will become a "lobisomem" if he was the 7th children (male) from the same father and mother. He changes into a "lobisomem", for the first time when he is 13 years old. Just for two hours: from Midnight to 2:00 am. Always on Friday during Lent.

In some places of Brazil (Portuguese colonization is responsable for the legend in that Country), the damned man changes in a crossroad, friday night (usually the 13th), after midnight when the moon is full.

Finland
The Finnish werewolves are rather melancholy creatures (surprisingly...). In our stories/legends/myths a person usually turns into a wolf without really wanting it, accidentally (by doing something that'll turn him into a wolf without knowing this might happen) or because some witch has put a spell on him (according to Finns, these witches would naturally be Sami, although the Swedes thought we were pretty good at magic ourselves). The werewolf (who's usually bound to be a wolf for nights and days until something releases him from the spell) then lurks around houses, sometimes eating cattle but rarely people and waits for somebody to recognize him. When somebody does (e.g the wolf's mother), she/he can break the spell by calling the werewolf by his Christian name or giving him some bread to eat. Sometimes after the werewolf had regained his human form, he would still have his tail till the day he died. Some houses actually exhibit sauna benches (or whatever they are called; 'lauteet' in Finnish) that have a hole in them, presumably cut for the ex-werewolf's tail. Finland's southern neighbor, Estonia is also known for its werewolf legends. Estonia is sometimes called 'Viro' in Finnish, and at one time werewolves were called 'vironsusi' ('Estonian wolf') in Finland. It should be mentioned, though, that 'vironsusi' is originally the same word as 'werewolf', meaning 'man-wolf' and connecting it with Estonia is a false etymology due to Estonia's reputation as a werewolf country.

Mexico
The werewolf is basically a universal myth. In Mexico, the most widely spread version of the werewolf is the one called "nahual", which comes from the Nahuatl (the ancient language of the Aztecs, becoming thus, the universal language in the pre-Hispanic world)word "Nuahualli", meaning warlock.
Since the Spaniards did not bring much on werewolves after colonizing Mexico, the ancient local legends on the subject became predominant.
The nahual was a warlock who had the capability to shape-shift at will into an animal, preferably a black or dark coyote. It was believed in the pre-Hispanic times, that people were constantly threatened by these evil beings.

Even if the Spaniards who came to Mexican lands in the mid 1500s were not concerned about werewolfery, they were influenced by other European countries that had pretty strong legends on the subject. And so, this allowed for the nahual myth to survive the Colony times and make its way through present time. Some indigenous groups still currently believe that nahuales turn into coyotes or other animals at night, through the use of magic and sorcery, in order to harm other people. Once they have shape-shifted, nahuales can run the lengths with no difficulty to steal corn of chickens, and to fight other nahuales that pretend to invade their territories. Such indigenous people's legends say that once in animal form, they can get killed if wounded, but in case they survive, they will show the wounds or damage done suffered while in animal form.

According to modern-day Mexican indigenous beliefs, the nahuales can shapeshift by performing anyone of the following: Jumping over a wooden cross, getting into deep sleep, putting on an animal skin, or covering their bodies with an ointment made of herbs, Not everyone can achieve the transformation. Just a few ones have been nature-granted with the capability to perform the change, but they also need to be skilled warlocks or sorcerers.
These legends also tell about the way to kill a nahual or Mexican werewolf: Stoning, or gun-shooting; they can also be killed by using holy water, fire or by hanging them.

In the Mexican state of Tlaxcala, in the surroundings of the mountain known as La Malinche (the wife of the Spaniard conqueror Hernán Cortés)the nahuas (a local indigenous group) believe that witches or "tlahuelpuchi" turn into fearsome coyotes at night, in order to break inside the houses where small children live to suck their blood. On the day after, parents will find their sons or daughters dead, with savage bites on their necks, legs and arms.

To prevent the attacks by tlahuelpuchi witches, parents leave by the bedside in the kid's room a mirror reflecting the sleeping child, a knife or a pair of scissors, all of which are said to have magical properties that scare-off these savage female werewolves.

In the Mexican state of Oaxaca, there are several indigenous groups, having each one similar beliefs of their own. In regards with the werewolf-like characters, the Zapotecs, for instance, say that nahuales are warlocks who shapeshift into ferocious and damaging animals that can produce great evils to people. They believe that nahuales are warlocks who make deals with the Devil in order to be able to turn into coyotes to suck people's blood while they sleep. They can only shapeshift at night. Their powers, according to such legend, include the capability of damaging unborn children, which explains to them why some kids are born dead or with malformations. In order to scare nahuales off, the Zapotecs place garlic on their doors and a knife or a pair of scissors under the pillow.
On the other hand, the Chinantecs, yet another indigenous group living in Oaxaca, also believe in nahuales. To them, nahuales can be both men and women, and they can only achieve the transformation at night, and they get to kill those who see them or even dare to face them. The Chinantecs say that if the nahual is injured in the battle, but manages to escape, on the day after, the man or woman behind the beast will show scars resulting from the wounds inflicted to them while in animal shape.

Norse
The Norse legends claim that one can change shape by wearing the skins of the animal one want's to change to.(also used by other cultures, belt made from a wolf etc.). Loki (the god) often changed and had a lot of skins(including a worm and a flea skin).

Portugal
In Portugal, werewolves are called lobis-homems. In the 1400's there was one kind of lobis-homem that was very quite common: The gentle and non-attacking creature. Once fallen under a spell, the lobis-homem would attend a crossroad at night to become a wolf after groveling on the dirt. Then the creature would run into the countryside, howling out loud, without hurting anyone. A shy and sad creature, the Portuguese lobis-homem could be easily recognized, for it was a wolf with a short and yellow-furred tail.

However, there was yet another kind of werewolf in Portugal, with little resemblance to this noble creature. It was the evil and devilish variety, far less-common though, linked directly to the black arts of witchcraft. Evil lobis-homems could be recognized by the shape of their eyes and sometimes because of the presence of the Devil's mark in some part of the body.

Russia
The person wishing to tranform goes into the forest, sticking a copper knife into a tree and dances about while saying incantations. When this ritual is performed, the spirit of the Wolf will take over your soul.

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The Encyclopedia of Celtic Knowledge
Caitlin and John Matthews

Fith-Fath: Shapeshifting in the Celtic Tradition

Learning the Powers
Shapeshifting is an intergal part of Celtic shamanic experience. All shamans are potential polymorphs, able to assume the shape- in either the middle realms or in the otherworld, and sometimes both-of any living being.

This ability to simultaneously part of all existences is intergral to the unitive revelation of a shaman. For example, in order for Amairgin to help the Milesians conquer Ireland, he has first to commune with nature, so that he is able to utter his great paean of self-identification with the elements of the land itself.

This is hard for the non-practioner to understand fully, but it is closely akin to the mystic's union with all creation, as attested to in countless spiritual traditions. The difference between the two is that the mystic does not normally strive to become or appear in any other amnifest shape than their own. The Shaman may actively seek to appear as, or to journey to the otherworld in, another guise for various purposes, usually because the human shape is a disadvantage or because stale energy requires a substancial change.

Finding the right power which will help the shaman underlies much of shapeshifting. The shapeshifters calls upon the power of her animal or other helpers in order to go forth, in spirit, to transact whatever business she purposes. The projected spirit is usually invisible to others, but may be observable by people who have the Gaelic da shealladh, 'the two sights'. If so, the spirit-form maybe shot at, causing the shapeshifter to be simultaneously wounded.

The main purposes of shapeshifting in Celtic tradition may be outlined as follows:

1. to learn from animal guises, to find information or things
2. to stalk a lover or enemy
3. to survive in times and places when being humn is dangerous
5. to become, or be enchanted into being, an otherworldly guardian."

later...
"The foundation experience of learning from animal powers is a total entering into the nature of otherworldly reality, and is continually referanced in the work of eltic poets. Even when the primitive shamanic practice began to fragment during the middle ages, this understanding remained in Celtic memory and is still retained in certain families, whose affinity with a particular animal- often a bird-ia an ancestral memory of a long association with the animal powers.

There are example storys and further explanations of Celtic Shapeshifting if anyone is interested.

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Unknown I awoke and was wounded in my being, then today for the first time a pure white dove displayed for me most beautifully. I was spell-bound.
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Thats Awesome John what a wonderful gift from the spirit.
Doves ares so beautiful and peaceful and as you probably know a symbol of the holy ghost.

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Made me think about Tesla.
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How so?

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He had a thing about birds and used to feed them in his hotel room, I read it said he was forewarned of his death by a bird with which he had some communication.
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quite,
Unknown I awoke and was wounded in my being, then today for the first time a pure white dove displayed for me most beautifully. I was spell-bound.

I am so happy for you,spiritual awakenings are such a beautiful experience, nothing compares.

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And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
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Interesting John,

Tesla was an incredible man and from the biography I read very psychic.

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