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You're walking up a steep hill in a luxurious forest. You hear birdschirping and the smell of the night air. As you near the peak
you notice a massive beast, much taller then you. In panic you look
for a bush and hide. The beast goes down on all fours howling to
the moon. It comes walking your way growing bigger each step. It is
next to your bush and you notice its wolf like and human like features.
It's cunning, strong, and fast, so you assume. You search for its name
in your mind and Werewolf pops up. Some would call it a Wer-wolf
in Germany others say Lob hombre in Spain. Portugal calls them lobo men.
France names them Loupgarou, Greece calls them vrykolaka.
Scandinavia calls them varwulf, Brittany names the werewolf bisclaverat.
Lastly Italy calls them Lupomanero. With so many names from different
languages where do these beasts fall in history? What makes them
known to all who live?
It begins in Greece with the king named Lycean, who ruled over
Arcadia. With such great power he wanted people to worship him
and no other god. The gods were angry that Zeus had to go down as a
mortal. Lycean invited the man, not knowing that he was a Zeus.
Lycean and his sons planned to serve the man human flesh.
They sacrificed Nyktimos one of Lyceans' sons and put some meat with it.
Zeus knew it was human flesh and was outraged. He turned
Lycean and his sons into wolves and turned Nyktimos back to human form.
Since then werewolves have been seen all over the globe.
There are ways to become a werewolf, but making a god mad is
not one of them. We all know that on a full moon someone becomes
a werewolf. You could also sleep during a full moon.
In Italy they believed that if you were born on the full moon
you'd become one. In the Balkan countries, it's believed that eating a
certain flower can turn you, although they never said what the flowers
name is. People also believed one could turn into a werewolf if
you drank from a magical pond or from where a pack of wolves
has been drinking. That's not as gross as eating a wolf's brains and
expecting to change into one! There is a more pleasant way,
a physician alchemist; magician named Paracleus said that if you
lived a "brutal and bestial life" you could come back as a wolf after
death, in other words reincarnation (34). Lastly in dreams about
werewolves you could turn or it could all be hereditary.
Although becoming one sounds fun, but what about when people
used ways to kill a beast?
Killing a werewolf sounds easy but it is hard to try
stopping a beast much bigger and stronger than a body builder.
In the Irish legends they made a silver bullet because
they thought werewolves were allergic to it. Another way was
killing it in its human form. The way to do that is by drawing three
drops of blood from different sides of the body. Then hitting it on the head
three times with a knife. Another way is to cure the beast. If you call
out its human name while still in wolf form. If the werewolf loses
a body part in battle that leg arm or whatever becomes human.
You could steal their clothes that they wore or the take wolf skin
after their done being a werewolf. By doing that the human is
forced to stay forever human and leave behind the wolf inside.
In the past people feared the thought of werewolves running around but
today not so much.
In today's society we don't fear the werewolf because our biggest fear
before people were being murdered. All throughout Europe
people feared the savage beasts, or what they thought to be beasts.
Germany on the other hand honored them alot. But as Christianity
grew, things like werewolves, vampires, witches, and black cats
were thought to be Satanic. The pagans believed the same thing.
Addition to the satanic belief was the weird deaths of people.
In France and Europe there was an epidemic of werewolves.
So many trials, that people probably lost count of how many
innocent people died. People would kill other because of a birth
defect like Down syndrome. Lycanthrophy was the mind thinking you
were a wolf. This defect caused many people to kill without knowing
they did it the next day. There are plenty of stories out there
about werewolves, but only some are true.
Stories are passed down from one generation to another, some
are fables others are trials. There is a well documented story
called The Beast of Le Gevaduan. Women worked in the fields tending
to their sheep when two beasts came and attacked one of the women.
They told the king but he ignored it. Then soon children who tended the
sheep were being killed! On February 1764, the king didn't hesitate to send
his soldiers looking for the werewolf. They looked for it and kill it.
The killings stopped but soon started up again in the summer.
Later, small expeditions were all successful yet the killings raged on.
Finally an old man in his sixties named Antoine de Bauterne
organized a hunting party to kill them once and for all. They trapped
the male wolf and shot it 2 times before the wolf fell. It weighed
130 pounds, stood 32 inches at the shoulder, and
measured 5 feet, 7 inches. That is huge compared to most wolves.
The female was much smaller and she was later killed 9 months later.
Although some people believe it was a legend, while others think it
was a rabid or hybrid dog.
In the 1900's there were sightings of some wolves, or
wolf children but not many. In 1989 Lorinne Endrizzi was driving
on Bray road near Devlavan, Wisconsin. She saw a large figure
kneeling that was dark and hairy. She kept driving when she hit
an object. Lorianne immediately stopped the car and glanced back.
The thing stood up and started running toward her. She sped fast
hoping it wouldn't catch up to her. Suddenly the creature grabbed onto
the roof of the car, but the metal was smooth so it fell. After the encounter
that night she went back with a friend only to find a large figure
by the roadside. July 1958, Delburt Gregg was alone in her Texas
house because her husband had gone. Before going to bed she
put her bed to the screen door to catch the night breeze. She plunged
into a deep sleep, only to be awakened by a scratching at the screen.
Lightning struck the sky revealing the wolf, Dulbert jumped
out of her bed. She saw a "'huge, shaggy wolf-like creature' "
standing in front of her (1). She grabbed a flashlight to see it again
but it had fled. Later she checked outside just to see a man walking
the road in the darkness.
The story of Amala and Kamala is a case of wolf children. In India a man
by the name of Reverand J. A. L. Singh first saw the girls on
October 9, 1920 outside the village of Godamuri. He went to the
den to find 3 adult wolves guarding the cubs in the den. He scared the
adults away from the den and inside found two cubs and 2 little girls,
but he left them be. Weeks later the den was unearthed. Two of
the wolves had escaped, but sadly the other one was shot. Singh sold
the girls and cubs at the market in Godamuri. Amala and Kamala were
placed in cages where they couldn't stand up and the caretaker
didn't bother to be concerned for them. Five days later Singh returned
to find the girls sitting in their own feces! Also they were so
malnourished that when Singh tried to give them water from his cloth
they couldn't suck the water. Singh decided to take them to his orphanage,
which was a 7 day trip. After spending a year in the orphanage,
Amala died at age 2 and a half, Kamala was 8 years old when
Amala died. It took years for Kamala to talk and walk upright.
Singh put her behaviors in two categories, wolf or human.
They worked on how many wolf actions disappeared, and how
many human actions reappeared. Some things that Singh did were
weird. For example he shaved her head because he thought she looked dirty.
He also bounded her tightly into loincloth so she couldn't relieve herself.
Another thing he did was make her wear clothes, eat with utensils and
attend religion. Years later at age seventeen, Kamala died of
uremic poisoning. The sightings of werewolves and wolf children
are rare that's why those years with Kamala were so important because
it gave us a split second glimpse of the beast.
Werewolves aren't feared by humans anymore, we have bigger
things to worry about. We believe in so much that were never sure
what is real or fake. Just the thought of seeing a wolf is chilling
enough. I think werewolves are real. I think that if trials did happen
in Europe it was probably out of fear. We were establishing
ourselves as humans, so we did anything to cause havoc throughout
the years. Then one day we realized it was cruel and as something
that should never have happened. In science the beast can't be
proven, but there's enough evidence that these massive creatures
exist somewhere hiding from us.
