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[JRPomazon]

Do people turn into werewolves if they are in the light of the full moon or is it a once a month thing regardless?

[Steel Samurai]

Depends on who you ask. I think in Underworld it's regardless, but in other things the light has to actually shine on them.

[Nevermind]

Some only on Wednesday or Friday when a full moon can shine straight onto their face. Only in summer.

Other can just change at will. Others still use some kind of external magic to change themselves. Different beliefs for different cultures.

[Chikara Nadir]

Like Laz said, it depends on the culture. Some are men who choose to take the form of wolves to eat stray children (like in Little Red Riding Hood), some may be forced to be monsters by a witch, some are monsters created from the froth of other werewelves (same for zombies, I guess, though why that particular person wasn't dismembered by the beast is beyond me...). Could be a curse, a talisman, a local deity. That alone makes it fantastic.

[Wolf O'Donnell]

I remember reading in a book of World Mythology that werewolves, that in some cultures, if you were born with hair or with a caul over your head, you were likely to become a werewolf. There was of course no mention of silver.

Interestingly, the werewolf equivalent of Dracula happens to be Prince Vseslav of Polotsk, who was depicted as a werewolf in the twelth century epic, The Tale of Igor's Campaign.

[Nevermind]

Yeah there was also children born on the new moon, or with epilepsy.

[Chukchi Husky]

I have a book that deals with wolf mythology in different cultures. Durign Medieval Europe the main spreader of the werewolf myth was the Catholic church. When the church was growing it needed an enemy. First it was the Romans, but after Christianity was adopted by the Romans the enemy became the pagans, and during that time the church tried to kill of myths like the werewolf. After the pagans the enemy became the infidels, and after the Crusades it became the heretics, with the werewolf being one of the forms of the heretic.

One thing it suggested was that the origin of the wolf children myth may be autism.

[Wolf O'Donnell]

It was probably wolf envy.

[SOAP]

AHEM!

Edited by SOAP, 26 May 2009 - 08:58 AM.

[Masamune]

I remember reading in a book of World Mythology that werewolves, that in some cultures, if you were born with hair or with a caul over your head, you were likely to become a werewolf. There was of course no mention of silver.

I've read where it was suggested that a unibrow was associated with lycanthropy.

[SnowsilverKat]

I heard being born on Christmas Eve was thought to be an omen of lycanthropy. So bizarre.

[Nevermind]

Wereraptor Jesus?

[SOAP]

I read somewhere that becoming a vampire makes you sexually irresistible to gay guys. Or maybe I got taht off a Wes Craven movie.

[Showsni]

I heard being born on Christmas Eve was thought to be an omen of lycanthropy. So bizarre.

Well, it is a pretty bizarre day. Animals can actually talk on Christmas Eve for an hour.

[Poore]

Obligatory:

"What if the terrorists are really werewolves...FROM THE FUTURE!"

(P.S. - I'm drunk!)

Edited by Poore, 16 June 2009 - 10:09 PM.

[Sir Turtlelot]

Obligatory:

"What if the terrorists are really werewolves...FROM THE FUTURE!"

(P.S. - I'm drunk!)

That honestly makes just as much sense as some of the other myths.