Werewolf Myths...
* A Werewolf can only be killed by anything silver
* No, Werewolves are just as fragile as everyone else and die from the same causes.
*A werewolf changes into a wolf like beast every full moon
* In reality, lunar cycles may affect a werewolves mood, like it can affect any ones, but werewolves change by will, not by the moon
*If you are bitten or scratched by a werewolf, you too, become one.
*again not true. Werewolves do not usually go around biting people. And if they did you wouldn't turn into one. Werewolves are usually BORN as werewolves, not made into them.
* Witches and Sorcerers owned a belt made of wolf, or animal skin that could transform them into a beast.
*No belts could possibly change a human. No matter WHAT they're made of.
*Werewolves attack the innocent because they enjoy doing so
*Okay, now... in werewolf legends, most are portrayed as brutal beasts. I'm not saying all werewolves attack because they like blood shed, But there is some truth behind that because werewolves do not need to survive on blood (Like vampires) and really have no other reason to attack.
My friend Lucy gave me an article she found in the Weekly World News (A tabloid) So I thought I'd put it up. Some of the things in it are mentioned above... But here goes:
"14 great ways to turn yourself into a werewolf
Contrary to popular belief, you CAN'T be turned into a werewolf by being bitten by one. But there are at least 20 other ways you can really be turned into a rampaging wolf, folklore experts say!
Much of what most Americans think they know about werewolves is pure Hollywood fiction. Even the notion that only a silver weapon can kill a werewolf originates in the classic horror flick The Wolfman, and has no basis in the historical records of the Middle Ages - when scores of people were tried for being werewolves and hanged.
Experts in folklore point out a variety of ways that cultures around the world have traditionally believed a person can be transformed from human to wolf. Here are the most common:
1. Participating in the rituals of certain secret societies.
2. Wearing the pelt of a dead wolf or werewolf
3. Drinking water from a wolf's footprint.
4. Donning a special magical belt. According to Der Deutsche Volksund Aberglaube der Gegenwart, a 1925 book on German folklore, 'People change, mostly just for several hours, into werewolves by wearing a wolf belt on the naked body.' The belt is made of 'wolf's leather or human skin often adorned with the zodiac, and with seven tongues on the buckle ' the book says. To return to human form the werewolf must open the buckle.
5. Eating dust from a wolfs footprint.
6. Drinking water from a cursed spring known to be in the Harz Mountains in Germany.
7. Drinking downstream from wolves.
8. Wearing a cursed moonstone.
9. Eating a wolfs brain.
10. Dreaming about running with wolves.
11. Sleeping outside on a Friday night when the full moon can shine on your face.
12. Plucking a rare white marsh flower that grows only in the Balkans.
13. having sex with a werewolf.
14. In shamanistic rituals, gaining the wolf as your 'totem animal' or as a special guardian.
Of course, becoming a werewolf is often beyond your control. Here are five ways you can be turned into a werewolf even if you don't want to be:
*~* Being possessed by the soul of a wolf, a risk during deep mediation.
*~* Being cursed by a god. This goes back to the Greek myth of Lycan, who was turned into a wolf by Zeus - giving us the scientific term for a werewolf, 'Lycanthropy'.
*~* Being Born the seventh of seven consecutive daughters.
*~* Being born on the winter solstice or Christmas Eve. When you reach puberty, the horrifying transformations are supposed to begin.
*~* Getting cursed by a powerful witch or shaman."
-By Michael Chiron, the Weekly World News. March 20, 2001
REMEMBER! THIS WAS TAKEN FROM A TABLOID. SO BASICALLY, IT AINT TRUE!
