The Belt

[GarouX]

Anyone heard or read anything about a belt(made of skin) that transforms u into a werewolf once u wear it?
Pretty strange stuff,the most popular one seems to be the story of Peter Stubbe in Cologne,Germany.
Satan supposedly gave it to him in exchange for his soul.

[wolf_moon]

i've heard of that story but what i was thinking right now is if you wear the belt do you atuomadically turn into a werewolf of just a sirten time? because if it tromsforms you when you wear it how would you take it off?

[GarouX]

From wut i heard it transforms u instantly .
And yeh i think u can take it off becuase that Peter guy took it off(while in werewolf form)...wich is btw the reasons he got arrested and killed.

[LV426]

(Copied from thread Of Wolf and Man in Lore and Mythology)

Of course a werewolf was not always in his/her lupine form. Normally the werewolf appears as a normal human except for the above mentioned signs. But the werewolf is most comfortable in a wolfy guise. This transformation was achieved in many ways, highly dangerous ways at that. Most commonly referred to by known werewolves that had appeared in documented trials was the ritual or rite. Usually practiced in the solitary confines of the forests when the moon was full and bright. The afflicted individual would trace a large circle into the earth and in the center of the circle a fire would be made and the beginnings of a magic ointment or potion was made. Each person made theirs differently but mostly the plants involved were highly toxic. Belladona, Hemlock, Henbane, and Nightshade were used. These plant ingredients were boiled or steeped to extract their most potent properties and then the resulting brew was mixed with fat from either human or animal, olive oil or turpentine. Some time later when distillation of alcohol was prevalent alcohol was substituted. After the mixture was complete the person wishing to change would then rub the concoction onto his skin and then don a belt made of wolf skin or a full wolf pelt and pray to the devil to help him change. When completed the person would then turn into a wolf and took off to search for prey.

Ritual Prayer

“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.”

[GarouX]

Tempted to try.
thx for the info.

[punisher]

I know I have mentioned this before, but I wrote an article about the proper procedure to construct the werewolf girdle(belt)
The article appeared in the July 2002 edition of FATE magazine. You can order a back-issue from FATE magazine directly. Their email is info@fatemag.com or you can phone them at 1-800-728-2730.

[Xzengrim]

The belt is either a belt, girdle, or shirt (in the case of the Nordic ulfthenin berserkers) that is said to instigate physical shifts when used in tandem with an unguent that was to be rubbed on the skin. You can use it to shift at any time, but you do need the ointment to get it to work. It should be noted that the main ingredients of the 'magic salve' were hallucinogens, poisons, and magic mushrooms... so this will probably not work in real life. There's also a little ritual to do, a dance to dance, and an invocation to Fenris, wolf-spirits, nature, or Satan, depending on what kind of mumbo jumbo you think you're working.
The belt was sometimes said to be no more than a bracelet, called a "wolf strap". It could be worn on the wrist, and also comes in flavors like fox, cat, and bear.
You could also make a wolf strap by going to the gallows at midnight and cutting a strip of flesh from the back of a murderer who had been hanged. It wasn't furry, it was dried human flesh, but it was still said to enact the change.
Other changing tools include rings, talismans, and wolf-hats. It's totemic magic.

[purinpuff]

The poor wolf was killed because someone else wanted to be one... how cruel.

[GarouX]

It's just too complicated,i'd rather be bitten by a werewolf instead,saves time.

[wolfwolf]

I've heard the myth about the belt, I've also heard that someone knew some old guy in Europe who had one from WWII.
Don't know how legit that is. A nice t-shift sounds good to me... but the whole wolf-killing thing ruins it. :D

[LV426]

The Werewolf Belt
A. Kuhn and W. Schwartz
Formerly there were people who could turn themselves into wolves by putting on a certain belt. A man in the vicinity of Steina had such a belt, and once he went away without locking it up, as was his custom. His young son came upon it and buckled the thing about himself. Instantly he became a werewolf. He had the appearance of a stack of pea straw and lumbered away heavily like a bear.

When the people in the room saw what had happened they ran quickly and brought back the father. He arrived barely in time and undid the strap before the boy could do any damage. Afterward the boy said that as soon as he put the belt on, he become so terribly hungry that he would have torn anything apart that might have gotten in his way.

[Kishi-Garou]

In the lands of the north, there were berserkers, which were bear men, and there were ulfsarkers, or ulfheobar.

Bear Shirt warriors, or wolf shirt warriors. They put on the skins to invoke a great mental change, of course if you went through this, you'd think your body changes too. They were ferocious fighters.

They mostly raped women and feasted after battle, though.

And don't try the invocation. It will kill you if you do it wrong. First off, nightshade is deadly. And you won't physically shift. You'll have a freaky ass trip, and think you're sprouting fur, when everyone around you thinks you just ate a bad shroom.

Of course, thats why people think they're p-shifters. Huge mental shifts.

[Xzengrim]

You gotta love the Ulfthenin (same as Ulfsarker or Ulfheobar). That's a great job; drop massive acid, halucinate that you're a werewolf, and smash anything that comes within arms reach. They used to whip these addicts up and then herd them at the enemy, and they would kill forty to one (so they say). The only thing was, there was never too many of them left over for the next battle. That, and the enemy would send back word of the berserkers, and by the time it got to the back of the regiments, everyone had heard that they were fighting real werewolves at the head of the line. Hi-larious.
But you gotta love em because Vikings said they were too violent. And I'm sure they were, what with the reckless killing of their own number, the raping, the destructive feasting and whatall, but still, the idea that Vikings would shy away from any kind of weapon...

[silenceowl]

the myth i heard was that the flesh of a damned man is taken by the devil. then turned into a belt. them a man must call the devil and ask to become a werewolf. and the devil will then give the man the belt (or in some cases wristband) made from the damned mans skin and. it will turn him into a werewolf.

[Xzengrim]

Yeah, it usually had something to do with the devil, although you could make your own. I'm reminded of the case of Jilles Grenier, of France, who was tried and executed for lycanthropy. He said that he was given a magic girdle and some mystic unguent by "L' Maitre de Foret" (The Dark Master of the Woods). The devil told him to eat children and such.