#i got into reading about werewolf myths like these bc remus lupin is great

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hey when i search for werewolf stuff on this dumb site could i find,,, more things related to deeply written humans who are torturously turned into uncontrollable beasts that are traumatized by their curse,,, and,, less furry shit? thanks.

like PLEASE werewolves are so cool and interesting to write/read about the whole concept of them is just great and has so much wild depth to work with from stories around the world from Lycaon the ancient King of Arcadia who was cursed by Zeus, to Remus Lupin, who did not live for all his 38 years of self hatred and wishing he could be anything but what he was for this nonsense.

In Hungarian folklore, it was thought that the ability to change into a wolf was obtained as a child, after suffering parental abuse or by being cursed.

In Haiti, there’s a superstition that werewolf spirits known as Jé-rouge can possess the bodies of unwitting people and nightly transform them into cannibalistic creatures. 

In Greece, there was a belief that the corpses of werewolves, if not destroyed, would return to life in the form of wolves which would prowl battlefields, drinking the blood of dying soldiers.

In the Norse Volsunga Saga, there’s the idea that donning magic wolfskins could forcibly turn you into a wolf yourself, quickly becoming unaware of who you are and hunting down and killing humans without a thought.

In some rural areas of Germany, Poland and Northern France, it was once thought that people who died in mortal sin came back to life as blood-drinking wolves. They would revert back to human corpses at daylight.

In numerous region’s superstitions satanic rituals turned people into werewolves, but, interestingly, christian saints were said to have the ability to transform people into werewolves as well- as a form of divine punishment. St. Patrick was said to have done this to a king named Vereticus.

Then there’s the Beast of Gévaudan, which pretty much set the stage for defining modern day werewolf fiction and folklore. Silver bullets, all that.

Like pls there’s so much to work with there but people just gotta post weird shit. Don’t make one of the most interesting persistent legends throughout history an anime sex thing god please.