What Start's A Werewolf

[CynathDraco]

I was wondering what the different ways to become a werewolf there are in fiction. The best one I heard was that the werewolf's mouth contains a bacterium that will infest in the blood stream and increase the energy holding potential of a human. Then it would slowly mutate the body to be receptive to all the processes that would make a change possible. What other ways has everyone heard of?

[Chiron Jackal]

I have no idea why, but my favorite has always been drinking water from a wolf's footprint.

[GhostBat]

There's also witchcraft, magic salve you rub on yourself, pact with the devil for revenge, wolf-skin belt, being born on Halloween... there's a bunch.

[Vendetta]

Being mentally unstable (i.e craaaaazy.)

[jckrussll89]

Being mentally unstable (i.e craaaaazy.)

I especially liked this take on the genre in the Werewolf of Paris by Guy Edore. The story was written ambiguously and it was left open to interpretation whether Bertrand was an actual werewolf or not.

[Nash]

i like the crazy idea :cool:

[jckrussll89]

Smoking mj. I kid. No seriously. My favorite werewolves have always been the ones who were born that way, you know. Kind of like an altered off-shoot of humanity. I don't know why, but it just seems more plausible than some dude who gets bitten and mutates, since such a mutation would probably off the guy anyway.

[Ulfstan]

There's also witchcraft, magic salve you rub on yourself, pact with the devil for revenge, wolf-skin belt, being born on Halloween... there's a bunch.

Ooh, ooh! Being born on Christmas! Best. Gift. Ever.

[Vendetta]

Ooh, ooh! Being born on Christmas! Best. Gift. Ever.
With the downside of worst birthday ever (I mean unless you're "Jesus".)

[jckrussll89]

There are also the claims of werebeings being aliens or even demons.

[Eric]

Well I've heard one where the person puts on a wolf skin drinks some kind of mix with posion and opid then starts chanting. After they are one. But I'd say it is more like a bad high.

[CatBoxed]

If I were to say what start is a werewolf, it's probably a game with a werewolf picture on the square that says "Start".

[NeonLightChild]

If I were to say what start is a werewolf, it's probably a game with a werewolf picture on the square that says "Start".

Awesome! Good thing those robotic hamsters are the popular gift this year. That leaves Werewolfopoly to the cool kids who really know the secret behind it!

/The shoe is boring! I wanna be the car!

[Sian Black Peril]

lmao yeah I agree.

Therre are too many myths & stuff to actually truly know what start's a werewolf...many just go with the good old if you get bitten or scrathced then soon you're 'one with the pack'

[CatBoxed]

lmao yeah I agree.

Therre are too many myths & stuff to actually truly know what start's a werewolf...many just go with the good old if you get bitten or scrathced then soon you're 'one with the pack'

No, I don't think you understand. What start's a werewolf is where the werewolf starts. The werewolf might be sitting on a toilet in human form taking a huge dump, and then turns into a werewolf. In this case the poop is what start's the werewolf.

Of course, its poop is just barely the tip of the iceberg. It's possible that its poop is not its origin point, but only what starts it, although it's suggested that pooping can cause its catalysis.

I'm not familiar with scrathcing.

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[Sian Black Peril]

That's a strange way of utting it but well understood :eek:

[CatBoxed]

That's a strange way of utting it but well understood :eek:

I don't ut it often, but I'm glad it was well received. If you're interested, I'll be utting it all night with my cat.

He loves to ut. Details will be forth-utting.

[BlueCresentmoon]

I was wondering what the different ways to become a werewolf there are in fiction. The best one I heard was that the werewolf's mouth contains a bacterium that will infest in the blood stream and increase the energy holding potential of a human. Then it would slowly mutate the body to be receptive to all the processes that would make a change possible. What other ways has everyone heard of?

"To the old folk tale of a god's curse, the modern disease of rabies was added. A person bitten by a mad dog or other animal over time becomes mad, and begins to behave like a beast. Traditionally, all madness falls under the domain of the moon." all rights go to
http://werewolves.monstrous.com/infection.htm

[Mizael]

I really believe that a "werewolf" is born from human parents,and from luck.
In many places people believes that a man that is born after seven sisters is bound to become a werewolf, others believe that the number actually are eight, or nine, but my point is : no one ever tryed to check the parents age.
After having seven, or nine children, is simply to believe that the man parents are already rather old, and this is a circunstance that enhances the possibilities of, for instance, tryssomy(also called down syndrome). The tryssomy is a condition that happens for the existence of an unnecessary extra chromossome, so, is normal to believe that rising the numbers of extra chromossomes might have other kinds of after effects on a newborn, like, showing enhanced latent pré-evolucionary features (when we are a fetus, we have reminescent fish gills, for instance).

[Rylias Shadow]

Several incantations I've found. Note that simply speaking these won't work; many other elements to the spells are needed; circle of power, salves perhaps, I don't know the recipe, I just know there is one.


"Spirits from the deep, who never sleep, be kind to me.
Spirits from the grave, without a soul to save , be kind to me.
Spirits of the trees, that grow upon the leas, be kind to me.
Spirits of the air, foul and black, not fair, be kind to me.
Spirits of the dead, that glide with noiseless tread, be kind to me
Spirits of heat and fire, destruction in your ire, be kind to me.
Spirits of cold and ice, phantoms of crime and vice, be kind to me.
Wolves, Vampires, Satyrs, Ghosts!
Elect of all the devilish hosts!
I pray you send hither, send hither, send hither
The great grey shape that makes men shiver!
Shiver, shiver, shiver!
Come, come, come!"




"Hail, Hail, Hail, great wolf spirit, Hail!
A boon I ask thee, mighty shade.
Within this circle I have made.
Make me a werewolf strong and bold.
The terror alike of young and old.
Grant me a figure tall and spare;
The speed of the elk, the claws of the bear;
The poison of snakes, the wit of the fox;
The stealth of the wolf, the strength of the ox;
The jaws of the tiger, the teeth of the shark;
The eyes of a cat that sees in the dark;
Make me climb like a monkey, scent like a dog;
Swim like a fish, and eat like a hog.
Haste, Haste, Haste, lonely spirit, Haste!
Here, wan and drear, magic spell making,
Findest thou me - shaking, quaking.
Softly fan me as I lie.
And thy mystic touch apply.
Touch apply, and I swear that when I die,
When I die, I will serve thee evermore,
Evermore, in grey wolf land, cold and raw."


"Make me a werewolf! Make me a xxx-eater!
Make me a werewolf! Make me a xxxxx-eater!
Make me a werewolf! Make me a xxxxx-eater!
I pine for blood! xxxxx blood!
Give it to me! Give it to me tonight!
Great Wolf Spirit! Give it to me, and heart, body, and soul, I am yours!"



"Come, spirit so powerful! come, spirit so dread.
From the home of the werewolf, the home of the dead.
Come, Give me thy blessing! come, lend me thine ear!
Oh spirit of darkness! oh spirit so drear!
Come, mighty phantom! come, great Unknown!
Come from thy dwelling so gloomy and lone.
Come, I beseech thee; depart from thy lair.
And body and soul shall be thine, I declare.
Haste, Haste, Haste, horrid spirit, Haste!
Speed, Speed, Speed, scaring spirit, speed!
Fast, Fast, Fast, fateful spirit, fast!"



"I (insert name) offer to thee, Great spirit of the Unknown, this night of (insert date) my body and soul, on condition that thou grantest me, from this night to the hour of my death, the power of metamorphosing, nocturnally, into a wolf. I beg, I pray, I implore thee-Thee, unparalleled Phantom of Darkness, to make me a werewolf, a werewolf"!

"Come, oh Come!"



"Tis night! Tis night! and the moon shines white over pine and snow capped hill. The shadows stray through burn and brae and dance in the sparkling rill."
Tis night! Tis night! and the devils light casts glimmering beams around. The maras dance, the nisses prance on the flower enameled ground."
Tis night! Tis night! and the the werewolf’s might makes man and nature shiver.
Yet its fierce grey head and stealthy tread are nought to thee, oh river!
River, River, River
Oh water strong, that swirls along I prithee a werewolf make me.
Of all things dear, my soul, I swear, In death shall not forsake thee."

[Topology]

"xxx-eater"? Is that supposed to be "man-eater"?

Edit: found another copy of the poem (http://werewolfman.webs.com/werewolves.htm) - apparently it's of Russian origin. It's an imaginative piece of writing, to be sure, but in all likelihood no more effective than the "spells" in Harry Potter ;)
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[saphira]

With the downside of worst birthday ever (I mean unless you're "Jesus".)

but u get 2 the presents on the sme day!:cool:

[lycanforever201]

sleeping under a full moon on a friday night in a open field.

thats my favorite :)

[NeonLightChild]

sleeping under a full moon on a friday night in a open field.

So you must have a thing for the itchy red bumps that appear right afterward?

Careful, everyone. Were-chiggers are on the loose.

[kenan]

wearing a wolves skins or magical rituals is a more known way to be turned...being bitten is rare unless you are among rather careless were's. usually the bite is supposed to kill, not turn the human, because if they meant to turn the human they would go about some other way to do it im sure.

[<\Mutt/>]

well i have learned that it is either genetics or you have to be bitten

[J.L.R.]

well i have learned that it is either genetics or you have to be bitten

As far a biting and such goes, that was largely a Hollywood fabrication. Until the advent of the movie "The Wolf Man", the bite aspect wasn't a part of the mythology, so the bite senario is relatively new.

Genetics... you're starting to get into Underworld...

However, genetics is possibly the more plausible method of obtaining true werewolf modification, but it would also be quite permanent...

[<\Mutt/>]

I do remember a first werewolf Lycaon who was cursed by Zeus an changed into one. so probably pissing off a deity is another way

[NeonLightChild]

I do remember a first werewolf Lycaon who was cursed by Zeus an changed into one. so probably pissing off a deity is another way

I think you're getting Zeus mixed up with Artemis. A man was watching her bathe and get all nakey, so she turned him into a stag and sent her hounds after him.

So pissing off a deity is probably not another way.

We're not even sure if a deity was pissed off when he sent to my college town a flood, a fire (two actually, one killing an entire family), an ice storm, a tornado, way sub-zero temps and a blizzard, all within about 3-4 years.

I'd say that town has a lot more to worry about than werewolves.

[DarkWolf]

I think you're getting Zeus mixed up with Artemis. A man was watching her bathe and get all nakey, so she turned him into a stag and sent her hounds after him.

Actually, he isn't. :p

Lycaon, also Lykaon, was an Arcadian King who invited Zeus to dinner. Wanting to test the God's omniscience he secretly served the God human meat. Zeus, obviously, discovered this and wasn't too pleased. He cursed the King to spend the remainder of his days as a beast.

The beast was the first wolf. The King's name then became in a fashion the name of this creature: lykos (Greek for wolf) and why we call the werewolf psychological condition "lycanthropy", derived from "lykos" (wolf) and "anthropos" (man).

So, yeah, 'cording to myth angering deities is a way to become a werewolf - since according to the Greeks it's how the first werewolf came to be.

[J.L.R.]

Oddly enough, in the Biblical book of Daniel, Nebuchadnezzer, the King of Babylon, was supposedly cursed to be a wolf for 7 years. While the Bible doesn't explicitly state this, other than he grew claws, fur, walked on all fours... ect. ect... later scholars believed that the beast was a wolf.

Thousands of years later, Saint Nautulis (also stated to be Saint Patrick), when encountering an entire town of "blasphemous" townsfolk, of whom let out barking laughs, when he tried to witness to them, was so angered by their mentality, that prayed for God to turn them all into a form better suited for their demeaner... According to legend, God turned them all into wolves. They lived as wolves (same as Nebuchadnezzer) for seven years. At the end of the seventh year, they would regain their humanity for just one day, and then revert back to wolves. What is very intriguing about this case though is that years later a priest encounters a talking wolf, of whom tells him this story and then begs him to give his dying mate the last rights. Under Catholic traditional it is blasphemy to give a beast "Christian" last rights. The priest was so affraid of the wolf though, that he dared not question him. He followed the wolf and found the dying shewolf as the wolf stated. When he nealt down to give the dying wolfess her last rights, the male pulled away her fur, to reveal a old woman. The priest gave the last rights, and then the woman turned back into a wolf and died.
The priest was so troubled about this event that he told his cardinal. His cardinal sent a letter to Rome to ask the Pope whether or not blasphemy was committed. After a long meeting, the "Church" degreed that if a the last rights of a Christian can be given to a wolf, if he or she, was once human. The craziest thing about this... is the Roman Chatholic church, actually degreed this.

[Vendetta]

Actually, he isn't. :p

Lycaon, also Lykaon, was an Arcadian King who invited Zeus to dinner. Wanting to test the God's omniscience he secretly served the God human meat. Zeus, obviously, discovered this and wasn't too pleased. He cursed the King to spend the remainder of his days as a beast.

The beast was the first wolf. The King's name then became in a fashion the name of this creature: lykos (Greek for wolf) and why we call the werewolf psychological condition "lycanthropy", derived from "lykos" (wolf) and "anthropos" (man).

So, yeah, 'cording to myth angering deities is a way to become a werewolf - since according to the Greeks it's how the first werewolf came to be.
There you go kids. Now you just have to find yourself a Greek/Roman god.

[<\Mutt/>]

I also do remember an old story about a young traveller named Brian as i recall. He was on his way to see his uncle in a village. The trip was longer then to be expected and he had to walk under full moon light. He heard a sound and was attacked by a viscous beast. He woke up without a scratch on him. He contined on his journey to find the village and a man being burned alive, he asked them what for and they replied to finally get rid of the cursed beast. . .
The story goes on but my point is i think the other way is to be bitten by a werewolf.

A couple of my favorites are:
eating raw flesh from a wolf
curses
water from the paw print
rituals including ointment and a fur belt
and the everyone favorite a bargain with the devil himself

[Carol]

I do remember a first werewolf Lycaon who was cursed by Zeus an changed into one. so probably pissing off a deity is another way

The better was that Zeus changed Latona (mother to Apollo and Artemis) to a wolf so she could run and hide from Hera who was jealous and vengeful of her (after all she did sleep with Hera's hubby) (but then again...who can say no to a god?)

[Pyrante Tanpelt]

The best ones I've heard is 'drink from a wolf's footprint on a full moon in the middle of the forest' and 'were (oops) wear a special belt enchanted by a werewolf's pelt'... :3

[fenrison]

man, i realy (again) like ur posts j.l.r.
im gona try to find a book i ones hade, it explaine the suposedly fact that u can actually be born with the garou gene,