thread: 2008-11-18 : Werewolves
On 2008-12-29, Dan Eltringham wrote:
Ah Martin, my favorite vampire film!
There are a lot of interesting historical ideas about werewolves, and what people who claimed to be werewolves thought about themselves and how they became werewolves.
An interesting read is The Book of Werewolves by Sabine Baring-Gould. The book was written in the late 1800s by Christian minister who authored the famous hymn "Onward Christian Soldiers". He apparently believed that werewolves existed.
"wer-wolves' by Montague Summers isn't worth your time though. I have a lot of interesting books on the subject; werewolves were a lot cooler before it was all wolfmen and silver bullets. In fact, the only time silver was used against a werewolf before Lon Chaney Jr. was when a bullet made from a chalice blessed by a priest was used to take down the Beast of Le Gevaudan.
Also, turning into a werewolf used to almost always be a deliberate action, from putting on a magic wolf pelt or a salve.
