Legends Of The Werewolves

now on the History Channel stories from the pages of time stories of triumph and tragedy adventures and achievements as we move forward in search of history where were the current images of these men turned into wolf monsters mostly come from the imaginary world of Hollywood, but The ancient Greeks and Romans believed that

werewolves

really existed and were absolutely clean, deadly surprising. In the 16th century, thirty thousand people in France were accused of being

werewolves

. As we progress in the search for history, we will discover the beliefs, the fears and hysteria surrounding werewolf

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that people have always had.

McCobb's fascination with what terrifies them most, whether it be the real-life savagery of serial killers like Jeffrey Dahmer or imaginary monsters like Frankenstein and Dracula, humans are irresistibly drawn to these horrific themes, one of the oldest and lasting is the werewolf, until now there were stories of werewolves. In the past, as recorded stories are found and throughout the countries of Greece, Central Europe and Asia, they are everywhere at the dawn of civilization, there was little to separate man from beasts, so it was thought that humans could becoming animals again, a belief called shapeshifting, practically everyone in primitive societies and so on has stories and beliefs about the transformation from animal to human form and vice versa, even in cave paintings you have images of what appears to be half man half deer all civilization has probably been a history of, you know keeping certain impulses and emotions under control and most of these are the most primitive instincts, the animal instincts, so since man began to civilize, you know that the werewolf has been lurking somewhere back there, in the shadows, not so much in the shadows that the werewolf was not noticed by the ancient Greek and father of history Herodotus in the 5th century BC.

C. reported on his travels of a shape-shifting people known as uriens, each neurium transforming once a year into the form of a wolf. and continued in that form for several days, after which he resumed his former form. You will find very strong werewolf myths among the Greeks and Romans. I mean, you have stories of Roman werewolves that sound like they were, you know they were, they were produced. In Hollywood last week one of these stories came from a Roman satirist called eNOS patrol. He was one of the first to chronicle a lasting connection between werewolves on a full moon.

Petronius wrote about a man who on a night illuminated by the full moon went to visit his lover. He asked a soldier friend to accompany him on the way. The soldiers suddenly stopped, took off their clothes, transformed into a wolf and ran toward him. the darkness the full moon actually has a connection to authentic werewolf lore because there is a belief that somehow the full moon the moon creates madness in people the madness moon then the full moon and the transformation from man to beast It is a natural magical connection. When he arrived at his lover's house, the man learned that a servant had fought a wolf with a sword, wounding him in the neck.

The next day, the man discovered the soldier in his barracks dying from a sword wound. in the neck. These were stories that were widely told and it was widely believed that if you were wounded like a wolf, you transformed back into human form and the wound stayed with you even A more horrifying account of a werewolf came from the Roman poet Ovid who wrote in the 1st century. He told of an ancient Greek king named Han whose cruelty was so notorious that the king of the gods Jupiter himself paid him a visit, but like Heian he refused to believe.

His visitor was a god and he tested him by serving a sumptuous banquet in which he had secretly mixed human flesh. Cannibalism even among the ancient Greeks was a no, no, I mean it was a real taboo to put a cannibalistic meal for a God. It was a tremendous offense. Jupiter instantly detected the contaminated food. Furious, he turned Heian into a wolf so that he could pursue his penchant for human flesh in a more suitable form. From the name of King Lycaon comes the word werewolf which means someone who transforms into a wolf. This story has had a profound effect on our understanding of werewolves because here, from the beginning, there was a recognition that the whole idea of ​​the werewolf It was related to those aspects of the human being that were posed to civilization in civilized society during the Middle Ages, the belief that the transformation of humans into animal predators was prevalent throughout the world and was in no way limited to wolves. , in Lapland there were reindeer, in South America, possums and in Japan, wild cats, what we are talking about is a phenomenon in which people believe that they or some of their neighbors can transform into an animal that animal is the predominant predator People in the area then believed that putting on the skin of an animal was a way of becoming that animal.

The Vikings made this belief a part of their military arsenal by putting on bear skins before battle. This practice contributed to their reputation. From being absolutely fearless and manic warriors they were called Bar Sark a term that survives today as the word berserk the word what the word really means in the ancient language is the men in bear shirts what the berserkers would do is put on these bearskin shirts and feeling like they had somehow been magically imbued with the courage, strength and ferocity of a bear. They were greatly feared and known to be completely out of their minds.

You know they were out. controls were no longer humans throughout medieval Europe, however, it was the wolf that was most feared as the largest carnivore in the area. It was thought to be the most dangerous predator people could encounter. Montague Summers, a 19th-century authority on the occult and the supernatural. accurately described what the wolf meant to medieval Europeans the distinctive characteristics of life are unbridled cruelty, bestial ferocity and voracious hunger it has something of the demon of hell it is the symbol of night and winter of stress and storm the dark and mysterious harbinger of death warning stories about wolves were widely repeated, especially among the most vulnerable part of the population, children, one of the most famous is Little Red Riding Hood, oh grandmother, what big teeth you have, the better for eat you with my dear, but it is a very, very sinister story. and it's clearly a werewolf story because here you have the girl and here you have the wolf disguised as a grandmother.

You have the wolf talking to Little Red Riding Hood. This is not just any one. Clearly, this is a werewolf. In search of history, werewolf hysteria swept through Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. Europe was a hotbed of werewolf activity. It was a tumultuous time plagued by irrational fears, superstitions, and radical religious changes during the height of the Middle Ages, especially as the Reformation was nearing its end. The great fight against witchcraft begins, the burning times begin to occur and right after the fight against witchcraft, a new fight against the werewolf began and suddenly there was this new wave of belief that we are Wilson, that already existed. and that they were all having a supernatural and negative impact on society the panic surrounding werewolves arose from the witchcraft hysteria of 1300 to 1700 thousands of people were put on trial on charges of witchcraft accusations of human sacrifice, cannibalism and sexual license came mainly from peasants and the accused were almost exclusively peasants and witchcraft hysteria was fueled in part by economic and social problems.

Poverty, disease, crime and famine. Europe commonly devastated peasants, no matter how hard they worked, they ended up with less and almost no way out of the bottom. Many peasants blame their poverty and other problems on the witchcraft of their neighbors, so other peasants became scapegoats for incurable social evils, people really on the brink, that's when misfortune hits them and it's all part of society that is violently purged and horrifies Lee when under extreme emotional and physical pressure, which fears were also fueled by religion so the Catholic Church was the dominant force in people's lives dictating behavior and providing explanations for phenomena that people did not understand according to church doctrine Satan intended to destroy Christian civilization and required hordes of witch disciples to do so witchcraft was seen as treason an attempt to overthrow the church is the time when Christianity was divided in half never before when Protestantism appears and suddenly it seems as if the legions of Lucifer are pouring out this is an all out fight to thwart witchcraft the church created the Inquisition an extreme legal process that made massive witch hunts possible The bishops served as inquisitors searched for heretics those who spoke or wrote against the traditions of the Roman Church in 1231 Courts of the Inquisition were established under direct control of the papacy throughout Europe heretics who repented received a sentence of life imprisonment those who did not They repented they were usually burned alive the Inquisition mercilessly pursued a bloody course its goal was to annihilate all people who were not sincere Roman Catholic Christians among the Protestant victims June mystical witches and werewolves the werewolf or like ham through pee was considered a form of witchcraft both involved a pact with the devil heresy people were everywhere feared that strange magical things were happening to other people and against them once the hysteria starts it tends to spread so when you encounter a truly gruesome crime werewolves were immediately suspected in the 16th century secular courts had adopted Inquisition procedures to protect society from witches and werewolves in 1532 judicial torture became the legal means of determining malevolent witchcraft and lycanthropy you can't actually prove the crime materially you can't prove that someone cast a spell in a single moment, so the only sure way to get a verdict is a confession and once you have that idea in your head , the best way to achieve confession is to apply force to the inquisitors who hear these confessions and find them.

It was difficult to contemplate the inhuman and sadistic horrors of the crimes listed. He preferred to think that they had been committed by a real monster. Half man, laugh, wolf and we blow at the devil. In France, the term for werewolf was loup-garou and suddenly, in the early aughts. The werewolves of the year 1500 began to appear there in epidemic proportions, according to legend, they could be easily identified. They have eyebrows that meet together. Good sign of a werewolf. Werewolves have hair growing on their palms and their shape, but they have very difficult problems, so that's what's difficult.

The palms were a sign of a werewolf. Anyone in 16th century France who lived alone, isolated from other people, who was careless and behaved in a wild, strange or unpleasant manner could easily be considered a werewolf in a series of accusations and arrests between 1520 and 1630. In France, more than 30,000 people were prosecuted accused of being werewolves. A typical story is that of a 16th century peasant named Giovanni, who had telltale eyebrows that met in the middle and lived as a hermit in a hut outside the village. The villagers of the town of Dole who rescued a girl from a wolf attacker thought they recognized Jilin, the animal they believed had been transformed by rubbing a magical ointment on its skin.

A week later, Geel was captured, brutally tortured into confessing and burned at the stake, but the victims. of werewolf hunts were by no means limited to men a famous account of a she-wolf came from central France in the Auvergne region a hunter was attacked by a wolf in 1558 in the fierce battle the hunter managed to cut off a paw and put the severed limb in his bag, he stopped at a nobleman's castle to tell his adventure, but when he took out his paw he found the thin hand of a woman with a gold ring on one finger, recognizing the ring, the nobles ran up the stairs and His wife was found bandaging the bloody stump of his arm; she confessed to being a werewolf and was burned at the stake.

The confessions, however, were of dubious authenticity due to the interrogation process. So, you know, they boil people in oil and torture them with hot tongs. You'd be surprised how quickly someone will confess to being a werewolf or witch under those circumstances. Such was the fate in 1589 of a poor peasant named Peter Stumpp, he was accused of becoming a werewolf by putting on a magical skin, never mind the no. Pelt was once found, authorities obtained a confession with the help of hot tongs, the wheel and pulling meat from his bones, all of which was depicted in a publicationsensational of the time known as a broadside.

Stokes' fate became the best-known of all werewolves because the barrage was devoured by people seeking to escape the relentless routine of daily life. The best-seller in 16th-century Europe. I mean, people love that kind of stuff they still do today, but this was supposed to be reality, these are these broad sides were the national Enquirer that are up there on the first day of the werewolf trial. In 1604 he made legal history with an incident of unprecedented compassion the accused was Jean Grenier a 14 year old shepherd from the Bordeaux region of France he was a slow child today he would be called mentally handicapped and left to wander in the countryside when a witness She testified that she had seen him put on a magical skin and turn into a wolf.

He was arrested and claimed that a mysterious Dark Stranger, the devil, had perhaps given him the skin he became. He turned him into a werewolf, he freely admitted that he stalked the forest, ran into children and attacked them. The courtroom erupted into awkward laughter when Grenier described his preference for young flesh and found an old woman as tough as leather, making him a sure candidate for execution. However, a lawyer. He gave an impassioned speech that he was a victim of his disordered brain, the argument of insanity prevailed and instead of death, Grenier was sentenced to prison in a monastery where he steadily deteriorated and died before his 20th birthday.

It was quite remarkable. that someone would look at a case like this and say: wait a minute, this is not a werewolf, this person does not become a wolf when, in search of history, he finds some explanations for what happened as early as the Roman doctors. from the 2nd century AD Surprisingly they recognized werewolf as a psychological illness, an undertaking of depression, but the treatment seemed as bad as a werewolf attack, opening a vein and bleeding, while the cure was barbaric, the diagnosis was quite insightful. , Nowadays psychiatrists have a name. For the mental illness in which a person believes that he is actually transformed into wolf lycanthropy, that person may even howl, crave raw meat, or run on all fours during an attack of this illness, there are now enough cases that we can begin to look for.

I look at them and I see that there are people who have great delusions that they can change and transform into different animals and that when they fall into that delusion they even act out the role and do things that we thought were associated with animals in the mid-17th century people had began to realize that those who claimed to be wolves were mad many victims were sent to monasteries rather than being burned at the stake some imagine that the werewolves were not mad although they may have been under the influence of drugs Whiteman's often They were invented by the so-called witches to treat the illnesses of peasants.

In a cauldron, plants and herbs were placed such as poppy seeds, opium aconite or aconite that slows the heart and belladonna, a poisonous plant also known as belladonna. When rubbed on the skin, this magical ointment entered the bloodstream and induced mental confusion, wild excitement and delirium, thinking that one had become a werewolf would not be out of the question, another possible hallucinogen occurred in the bread of rye, a staple of the diet of European peasants in the Middle Ages. When the winters were extremely cold, a fungus called air infected the rye. Bread could induce LSD-type hallucinations like seeing a werewolf or being one.

Suddenly, a perfectly normal person became wild, crazy, bestial, whatever affects the brain, people became sick. It gets pretty crazy and they run around and you know, there have been crazy murders, crazy situations that have been attributed to people who ate this poison. Reports of villagers frightened by the sight of a ragged human running through the forest fueled werewolf fears, but the culprit was often just a hermit and there were some cases of wild or feral children who after being lost or abandoned had learned survival skills in the forest. Amala and Kamala were among 16 children supposedly raised by wolves who were found in India between 1843 and 1933 when the girls were taken from a wolf den in 1920 they walked on all fours they ate nothing but raw meat and how many years they escaped from the captivity Amala died within a year at the age of two and a half Kamala died nine years later at 17 perhaps the most famous wild child was Victor of Avalon, whose story was told in Francois Truffaut's 1969 film, The Wild Child .

In 1797, French villagers were frightened by the sight of a mysterious wild man running through the forest. Three years later, a naked 12 year old boy was captured, he was covered in cuts and bruises and was terrified of humans and he also preferred to eat nuts and berries when he prepared food. Victor lived to be 40 years old, but he never learned to speak. Another explanation for werewolf sightings could be medical illnesses discovered later. Hypertrichosis is a rare genetic disorder that occurs in one in every billion births. It causes increased hair growth throughout the body and this can be very extensive, so extensive that it practically covers the surface of the skin and causes the child looks like a dog, an animal or a werewolf.

In the 16th century, this disease was observed in Peter Gonzalez and his children have these wonderful drawings of people with these hairy faces that, by the way, look a lot like Line Chaney Jr. invented during the Middle Ages, those people could have easily been mistaken for werewolves, seeing these images I would say would lead people to believe, goodbye, yes, but my God, yes, it's all true. The second disease that may have helped perpetuate the werewolf myth is porphyria, an extremely rare form of a genetic blood disorder first recognized in the early 20th century. In some severe cases, patients are so sensitive to sunlight that prolonged exposure could lead to tissue loss from the limbs and face, and something hidden like this might tend to come out late in the morning.

At night, if they had a lot of tissue damage, their hands in particular tend to keep them in a clawed position, if the tissue was lost from their lips, their teeth would be more exposed and there would be this brown color. color people might associate with blood plus this slide amount of extra growth of the hands particularly the temples some experts question the scientific and medical data saying they are insufficient explanations for the widespread and widespread belief in werewolves during the 16th centuries and XVII beliefs about werewolves are not only in a few places where LSD could have entered the food supply, werewolves are not only in a few places where there could have been outbreaks or family traditions of porphyria, it is a phenomenon much larger than the werewolf oz myth that has come down to us through the ages basically as a myth about our inner nature, the animal side of us as we like to think of it, unlike the spiritual side, has certain appeal because, after all, we are animals.

I think it's a mistake to look for it. rational explanations because at some level it is not people have always been fascinated with the boundary used that you know between human beings and animals, especially by the fear of the beasts within when, in search of history, returns, Hollywood creates the definitive werewolf saga Despite a lineage dating back to ancient times, most of what we know today about werewolves comes from the 1941 film The Wolfman, who is bitten by a werewolf and lives, dies. turns himself into a werewolf, starring Lon Chaney Jr. Like the werewolf, the monster is instantly recognizable in-universe, as Wolfman was the main power icon of the 1940s, he was the first truly original monster to have put down the pike for a long time.

Wolfman is a great movie, what the werewolf lacks is a great novel and perhaps that is why the werewolf is not as popular as the vampire or Frankenstein's monster or dr. Jekyll and mr. Hyde, there are many very good werewolf stories, but no, there is nothing that matches Dracula, nothing that matches Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, typical of literary attempts, it was in 1846 a Victorian pot by gwm Reynolds vogner, the bear wolf, a chapter was serialized in a The time in the pulp magazines of the time that were known as Penny Dreadfuls is a kind of rolling Victorian prose, the werewolf snatching the golden-haired violet, the child, the screaming mothers and all those kinds of things that were read to Ben just thrilled them. working in a shop assistant in 19th century England, almost 20 years later, in 1865, a more erudite work appeared, a collection of

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gathered by clerics, a vine that Gould discovers in the book of werewolves, but the first novel to gain literary recognition would not be published.

Until 1933, written by Hollywood screenwriter Guy Endure and set in France, it was called The Wolfman of Paris. In reality, it was based on a real case of a French soldier who had gotten into the cemeteries of Paris and was actually a demon who ate the blood and gore of the recently dead, but this story followed him as if he were a werewolf and then, in 1935, it was made into a movie that was quite successful. The film was renamed The Werewolf of London and changed Paris to London to appeal to its English-speaking audience when my experiments were completed.

I will show the results to the whole world not before remembering this dr. Glendon, the werewolf, instinctively seeks to kill what he loves most, was the first feature film about werewolves and, although well received, the film failed to become the benchmark for the genre, the reason why the sensors felt that the transformation of man into beast was to close. a parallel to Darwin's controversial theory of evolution, especially after the infamous Scopes Monkey Trial, an intensely debated case in which a Tennessee schoolteacher was prosecuted for introducing evolution to his class, thus the crucial scene of any werewolf movie, the transformation occurred off-screen.

With the film's box office success, Universal Studios was eager to produce another one, but again ran into censorship when Adolf Hitler was tightening the Nazi grip on him in Europe. The censors decided that horror movies had no place in the tension-filled times just before World War II. international embargo on Hollywood horror films and they stopped making them for a few years because the British Board of Film Censors was very concerned that they were a demoralizing form of entertainment. Interestingly, Hitler was fascinated with wolves. Typical was the term he chose for his The feared submarines, the wolf pack, so named for their tactic of surrounding a convoy and mercilessly attacking one ship at a time.

Adolf Hitler was absolutely fascinated with images of wolves, he surrounded himself with all kinds of totems and liked to give things names after wolves and things. One of his favorite American movies was The Three Little Pigs and he used to whistle, who's afraid of the big bad wolf? you know he was going to his bunker the ban on horror movies however he would become a victim of war it turned out that the viewers needed a thrill The first release and horror movies fit perfectly into the earth man movies starring Lon Chaney, who was made by Universal Pictures, is an American character who is like displaced to a Europe in the 40s where there is no war but there is a werewolf behind every tree and what do you have in The Wolfman saga is the werewolf who tries to sleep to the beasts of human nature.

This all happens against the backdrop of real-world war, and it's probably no coincidence that the Wolfman saga began right after Pearl Harbor and ended just in time. For the shopkeeper, the werewolf established the defining traits of a werewolf his appearance when the moon was full the pentagram mark a satanic emblem that marked the werewolf's next victim and death by a silver bullet supposedly the silver was to werewolves as garlic is to vampires, but most memorable was the transformation from man to wolf the first time the public saw this on screen the overwhelming power of the visual would change the public's perception of the monster to always one of the things that both on stage and on screen because of complex people's mythology is that they simplify it and put it together so that you can have it easily available.

The movies helped us understand the werewolf by simplifying it and giving it some characteristics that we could identify with werewolves. The films features were created by the German emigrant and screenwriter Kurt. Look at old Mac, I have to give credit to Kurt he shot Mac, who I think is the father of allmodern myths about werewolves, the full moon, silver bullet, pentagram in hand, as far as I know, she bowed in amazement. Mac invented all that and a new person for her. camera when I write to correct portions so I invented certain things like the pendulum maybe it existed before I don't know what I owed Mac also invented some lines of verse that chilled the spine of millions of viewers and became a classic quote of the genre even the man who is pure of heart and says: show us at night we become a boy who loves the wolfsbane and the autumn moon, even though the result of seeing old Max with a brilliantly conceived script was that Hollywood simply he had made up his own rules about the werewolf rules.

That stuck, everyone believes that the real way to become a werewolf is to be bitten by a word that comes straight from the movies, no, that's strictly Hollywood law, when a werewolf didn't bite people, a man The wolf tore the pieces and ate them. There wasn't going to be enough of the victim left to become another werewolf, but it was that movie that for moderate America, I think probably the modern world has fixed the image of the werewolf as a flat-faced furry thing with fangs, but that's that's the werewolf of Hollywood, it's not the werewolf of ancient legend when the quest for history continues, the legend of the werewolf still has the power to fascinate despite everything that is known about men wolf, from ancient legends and myths to scientific and medical explanations, the animal continues to instill intense debate.

Conservation groups fight for the wolf's right to exist believing it symbolizes all that is wild and free in nature. Others would prefer that wolves be eradicated entirely, viewing them as dangerous and destructive predators. Humans continue the uneasy relationship with the wolf. Man has a beast inside him and That is a kind of secret desire to become one and lose all civilized restrictions. The more civilized we are, the more we need to at least fantasize about ceasing to be civilized. Such fantasies became widespread when the old werewolf movies were released. on television in the 1950s, children began to develop an affinity with a terrifying creature, it wasn't until the movies premiered on television and were actually available for the public to watch that children began to get their hands on them , they adopted them. because you cling to 12 year old monsters because they are no more understood than you, they have a hard time dealing with their environments just like you do, but they can defend themselves and you fantasize about those characters instead of an object of I fear that the Werewolf was becoming a pop culture icon in 1972.

Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee created a werewolf series at night. Even little kids are fun to read about and they are always looking under the bed hoping there isn't a monster. Under the bed there is an ogre and there is something fascinating about the idea that maybe somehow some people transform at night into something else. Contemporary adults have been reluctant to abandon the werewolf as simply a child's thing. Gary Brander's best-selling 1977 novel, The Howling about a contemporary coven of werewolves, became a cult classic in part by focusing on the raw sexuality and lust of werewolves. the wolf's face was just an inch from his own moon his identical hot breath hissed in her ear gleaming teeth as two of his finger joints snapped in the air they moved closer to his throat part of the joy of being aware of all us that you can go out and jump on any lady, well if you want and no one will look at you funny, it's freedom, the freedom to be sexy and lustful as you want, modern werewolves even stop the internet as live action.

The Werewolf the Apocalypse role-playing game is so popular that it attracts thousands of players around the world. We use the Internet to connect a large number of games in the United States and indeed in different nations, and where we communicate with each other about what is happening. It happens in each of our games and that's why we create this shared universe of many small games creating one bigger game. If the werewolf of this type of group wasn't your hungry child killing Beast New Age, where the rules are actually representative of many good things in the world thanks in 1997, the United States Post Office joined the trend of the monsters with five movie monster stamps.

Lon Chaney Jr's Wolfman is back in style more than 50 years after writer Mac, with a bow, created the character Wow, so I created something that could live a lot longer that just goes to show you shouldn't be a writer you should be a postage stamp and immortal Yola the werewolf has evolved throughout history what most of us now accept as legend was very real began as a way to explain the inexplicable a creature guilty of man's atrocities and symbol of sexuality and the power that many humans envy but were unable to achieve, the werewolf looms large in our past and continues to live primarily for our entertainment, as we discover when we go in search of history.