oric human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf or a therianthropic hybrid wo
ngth, reflexes, and senses. They can be like other supernatural
more, werewolves are very fast and have speedy healing abili
ter of wolves is usually 4 to 6 pups. The pups are born deaf and blind with bright blue eyes, a
, they turn back to their human forms, a werewolf's main weakness is their vulnerability to silver or any substance containing silver, as
its wolfish form at the time of the full moon. When the werewolf's s
r things humans cannot, such as the Gilbert Device, however, they were not shown t
asing into wolves, but they live in the woods, far away from the human world. They are h
nto a wolf at night and devours animals, people,
named Lycaon angered Zeus, the lord of the Gods, when he served Zeus a meal made from human flesh. As
r of the devil and his followers undermining human, particularly christian, society. Accounts of the hum
a common development of a Christian interpretation of underlying European folklore developed during the med
d. Like the witchcraft trials as a whole, the trial of supposed werewolves emerged in what is now Switzerland ( especially the Valais
ed the werewolf made its debut in the epic of Gilgamesh, the oldest known western prose
with the legend of Lycaon. When he angered the God Zeus,
to turn people into a wolf for ten days. The father-son duo donned the pelts, transformed into wolves, and went on a killing rampage in the forest. Their r
they transformed with the help of an enchanted sash or a cloak made of wolf pelt.
tudy conducted at Australia's Calvary Mater Newcastle hospital, a full moon brings out the "beast" in many humans. The study found that
social norms, but may be released when the moon transforms, concomitantly transforming the person. This darker side of human nature is uncontrollably aggressive and without morality, is,
oon is full, they turn into a hairy- and- scary- monster! An
amesh," is a likely candidate. In it, Gilgamesh refuses to become the lover of the goddess Ishtar because of her cruel treatment of her
that the visitor is immortal, so he devises a test. He serves human meat to his guest, who unfortunately turns out to be the god Jupiter. Jupiter immediately recogniz
, if wolves live or have lived in a particular region, that region's folk tales include werewolves. In regions where there are no wolves, stories describe people turning into other carnivorous animals. Stories from
fters tend to inspire fear. That f
arge, powerful carnivore -- it's frighten
person becomes something he fears, a
faces the threat of ongoing, perpetually terrifyin
he only way to becom