History of Therianthropy

[Xavious]

This (http://www.geocities.com/schablotski.geo/Werewolf.htm) website has list of therian, werewolf, and other pieces of information related to that. A few of the more interesting things mentioned are:

75,000 BCE Evidence exists of bear and wolf cults as early religions.

540 BCE King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon suffers a mental affliction causing him to live as an animal for nearly four years, as related in Daniel 4:15-33.

1640 c. German city of Greifwald is overrun with werewolves for months, until local teens slay the lycanthropes with silver bullets.

1848 The Moon turns blood red during an eclipse and sets off an epidemic of werewolf sightings

1887 The Order of the Golden Dawn is founded. The order is largely based on the Sacred Magic of Abramalin and restores a fascination with vampires, werewolves, and spirits of darkness and light. Among its members are such luminaries as Nobel Prize winner W.B. Yeats and the notorious Aleister Crowley.

1988 The German villiage of Wittlich is briefly attacked by a large werewolf (the "Morbach Monster") when a special candle always kept lit (to ward of the beast) goes out. This attack is witnessed by American servicemen stationed at Hahn Air Base in Germany.

1989 First sighting of the Bray Road Werewolf in Wisconsin.

1992 The terms "Therianthropy", "Therianthrope", and "Therian" are invented by members of the Alt.Horror.Werewolf (AHWw) usenet group to accommodate words applying to all shapeshifters / primals.

1999 The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejects an attempt to patent a technique for creating animal-human hybrids.

I'm real curious about that last one.

[EP-GingerSnaps]

75,000 BCE Evidence exists of bear and wolf cults as early religions. I wasn't aware there was any evidence of human existence dating as far back as 75,000 BCE... I wonder if there is a source for this one.

1989 First sighting of the Bray Road Werewolf in Wisconsin. I remember this really well actually. I was three years old. Anyway, umm… there’s some current news about that just within the last year. I think you can find it through a quick yahoo.com search, if not I’ll try and set up a link to the articles.

1992 The terms "Therianthropy", "Therianthrope", and "Therian" are invented by members of the Alt.Horror.Werewolf (AHWw) usenet group to accommodate words applying to all shapeshifters / primals. Those terms existed way before internet nerds got together to rediscover a term slightly similar to their fanatical addiction for social acceptance and vulnerable emotional crazes of identity crisis.

1999 The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejects an attempt to patent a technique for creating animal-human hybrids. I’ve heard of this one, last time I checked it was a hoax rumor.

Interesting site you found there...

[Xavious]

Forgot to mention that at the bottom of the website are sources as to where the information came from.


I’ve heard of this one, last time I checked it was a hoax rumor.

Interesting site you found there...

Do you have any information on it?

[sno raven]

The one about the animal-human hybrids. I think that came up because they are harvesting human oragans in pigs, and even I read that they are creating mice with human (or human-like) brains, of course despite the size. Sounds alot like those mice in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy huh?

[pyros_fire]

ok heres a time line 4 u

PURPORTED WEREWOLF SIGHTINGS IN HISTORY

75,000 BC
Earliest human altars, including evidence of prehistoric bear-cult.

10,000 BC
Domestication of dog

6,000 BC
Catal Huyuk cave-drawings depict leopard men hunting

2,000 BC
Epic of Gilamesh written down (first literary evidence of werewolves)

850 BC
Odyssey written down (includes many traces of werewolf beliefs)

500 BC
Scythians recorded as believing the Neuri to be werewolves.

400 BC
Damarchus, Arcadian werewolf, said to have won boxing medal at Olympics

100 - 75 BC
Virgil's eighth ecologue (first voluntary transformation of werewolf)

55 AD
Petronius, Satyricon

150 AD
Apuleius, Metamorphosis composed

170 AD
Pausanias visits Arcadia and hears of Lykanian werewolf rites

432 AD
St. Patrick arrives in Ireland

600 AD
Saint Albeus (Irish) said to have been suckled by wolves

617 AD
Wolves said to have attacked heretical monks

650 AD
Paulus Aegineta describes "melancholic lycanthropia"

900 AD
Hrafnsmal mentions "wolf coats" among the Norwegian Army
Canon Episcopi condems the belief in reality of witches as heretical

1020
First use of the word "werewulf" recorded in English

1101
Death of Prince Vseslav of Polock, alleged Ukrainian werewolf

1182 - 1183
Giraldus claims to have discovered Irish werewolf couple

1194 - 1197
Guillaume de Palerne composed

1198
Marie de France composes Bisclavret

1250
Lai de Melion composed

1275 - 1300
Volsungasaga, Germanic werewolf saga, written down

1344
Wolf child of Hesse discovered

1347 - 1351
First major outbreak of the Black Death

1407
Werewolves mentioned during witchcraft trial at Basel

1450
Else of Meerburg accused of riding a wolf

1486
Malleus Maleficarum published

1494
Swiss woman tried for riding a wolf

1495
Woman tried for riding a wolf at Lucerne

1521
Werewolves of Poligny burnt

1541
Paduan werewolf dies after having arms and legs cut off

1550
Witekind interviews self-confessed werewolf at Riga Johann Weyer
takes up post of doctor at Cleve

1552
Modern French version of Guillaume published at Lyon

1555
Olaus Magnus records strange behavior of Baltic werewolves

1560
First publication of Della Porta, Magiae naturalis

1563
First publication of Weyer, De praestigus daemonum

1572
St. Bartholomew's Day of Massacre, intensification of French civil war

1573
Gilles Garnier burnt as werewolf

1575
Trials of the benandanti begin in the Friuili (and will continue for a century)

1580
Rebellion at Romans with cannibalistic overtones

1584
Reginald Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft published

1588
Alleged date of Auvergne female werewolf (Boguet)

1589
Peter Stubb executed as werewolf at Cologne

1598
Roulet tried as werewolf, his sentence commuted
"Werewolf of Chalons" executed at Paris
Gandillon family burnt as werewolves in the Jura

1602
2nd edition of Bouget, Discours des sorciers

1603
Jean Grenier tried as werewolf and is sentenced to life imprisonment

1610
Two women condemned as werewolves at Liege Jean Grenier dies

1614
Webster's Duchess of Malfi published

1637
Famine in Franche-Comte: cannibalism reported

1652
Cromwellian law forbids export of Irish wolfhounds

1692
The Livonian werewolf Theiss interrogated

1697
Perrault's Contes includes "Little Red Riding Hood"

1701
De Tournefort sees vampire exhumation

1764
Bete de Gevaudon starts werewolf scare in Auvergne

1796 - 1799
Widespread fear of wolves reported in France

1797
Victor of Aveyron first seen

1806
French population falls below 2000

1812
Grimm Brothers publish their version of "Little Red Riding Hood"

1824
Antoine Leger tried for werewolf crimes and sentenced to lunatic asylum

1828
Death of Victor of Averyon

1830
Souix warriors reported hunting in wolfskins

1857
Accusation of being "wolf leader" ends in court in St. Gervais
G. W. M. Reynolds, Wagner the Wehr-Wolf published

1880
Folklorist collects werewolf tale in Picardy

1885
Johann Weyer's book reprinted at Paris

1886
Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde published

1906
Freud lists Weyer's book as among ten most significant ever published

1913
The Werewolf (film) using real wolf in transformation scene

1914
Freud publishes "wolf man" paper

1920
Kamala and Amala, the Orissa wolf children, discovered
Right-wing terror group "Operation Werewolf" established in Germany

1932
Jekyll & Hyde (film) starring Frederic March

1935
Werewolf of London (film)

1941
Wolf Man (film) starring Lon Chaney Jr.

1943 - 1944
Childhood autism first described LSD discovered

1944
House of Frankenstein (film) includes mention of silver bullet

1951
Outbreak of ergotism at Pont-Saint-Esprit

1952
Ogburn & Bose, On the trail of the Wolf-Children published

1957
I Was a Teenage Werewolf (film)

1972
Shamdeo discovered living among wolves in India

1975
Surawicz & Banta publish first two modern cases of lycanthopy

1979
"An American Werewolf in London" (film) includes first four-footed werewolf

1985
"Death of Shamdeo"
"Teen Wolf" (film)


1988
Monsieur X arrested
"McLean Hospital" survey published

1990
"Werewolf rapist" jailed
McLean Case 8 full report published

1991
"The Wolfman" escapes from Broadmoor

[Darth Cluich]

ok heres a time line 4 u



And from what website did "u" steal that?

[Claudandus]

And from what website did "u" steal that?

Yep, it doesn't take Sherlock Cluich to realize that this is stolen material. As a matter of fact, I printed this timeline years ago. Here's the link: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Arcade/4626/timeline.html
At the end of the timeline, there's another link, indicating where did they borrowed this stuff from.

By the way, the fourth entry... isn't it Gilgamesh instead of Gilamesh? Or am I wrong?

[Darth Cluich]

Yep, it doesn't take Sherlock Cluich to realize that this is stolen material. As a matter of fact, I printed this timeline years ago. Here's the link: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Arcade/4626/timeline.html
At the end of the timeline, there's another link, indicating where did they borrowed this stuff from.

By the way, the fourth entry... isn't it Gilgamesh instead of Gilamesh? Or am I wrong?


No, you're right. It should be Gilgamesh. And thanks for the link.

A reminder, folks: If you're going to reprint material from another source, cite the source and provide a link, if possible. Do not try to pass of another's material as your own.

[Xavious]

Also much, if not all, of the information posted was on the original site

The one about the animal-human hybrids. I think that came up because they are harvesting human oragans in pigs, and even I read that they are creating mice with human (or human-like) brains, of course despite the size.

Not quite what I expected but that does sound about right. When I first read it I was thinking of something more along the lines of actual human/animal hybrid rather than an animal with a few human organs or humans with animal organs.

Sounds alot like those mice in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy huh?

Never saw the movie or read the book. How good are they?

[Darth Cluich]

Never saw the movie or read the book. How good are they?

Read the books. Do not pass GO. Do not collect $200.

[SirZachtheSaxon]

Does anyone know exactly where in the world the altars, and evidence of the bear-cult Circa. 75,000 BCE was found. Is it just one location, or is it consistant in many places?