The werewolf could be restored by crossing his path with a knife or polished steel; by a sword laid on the ground with point towards him; by a silver ball.
This fact would seem to show that the fear is for the living, lest the soul of the deceased should enter the animal and become one of the innumerable werewolfor vampyre class of demons.
Of this latter kind of hungry werewolf a specimen still occasionally revisits the glimpses of the moonshine which, for too many minds, still replaces daylight.
The last execution of a man for being an occasionalwerewolf was, I believe, in 1589, near Cologne, there being some evidence of cannibalism.
But even on that night thewerewolf might be generally escaped by the simple device of not speaking of him.
But even into this rare depth of ignorance enough light had penetrated to enable Eliza to cope with her werewolf in the civilised way of haling her before a magistrate.
The universal werewolf superstition, for instance, drew its unspeakable horrors from deep and wide-spreading roots.
May God give the bloodhound andwerewolf his reward.
Among other, there are representations of the Witches' Sabbath, the Wild Huntsman, and a Werewolf attacking a Man.
The only way in which a werewolf can be liberated from this cruel bondage, is by stabbing him three times in the forehead with a knife.
The traces left are indeed numerous enough, and though perhaps like the dodo or the dinormis, the werewolf may have become extinct in our age, yet he has left his stamp on classic antiquity, he has trodden deep in Northern snows.
The werewolf is a savage beast, and when he is in a rage he devours men and does much damage.
To him she sends at once, and the guilty pair steal away the clothes of the poor werewolf at the very first opportunity.
The werewolf is a human being cursed with the power or the obligation to be transformed into an animal who goes forth to slay and devour.
I have found no comic use of the werewolf or of the vampire, though there are several comic witch stories, yet all these personages are humanized in modern fiction.
Distinction is to be made between the real werewolf and the lycanthrope,--the latter a human being who, on account of some peculiar twist of insanity, fancies himself a wolf and acts accordingly.
He hears that there is to be a meeting in the sacred grove on a certain day and begs his beloved to remain away, lest the werewolf come.
Like the vampire, the werewolf is under a curse that impels him to prey upon those dearest to him.
The legend of the werewolf is found in practically all European countries, especially those where the wolf is common.
Modernity is combined with medieval superstition here, and it seems uncanny, for instance, to identify a werewolf by means of an electric pocket flashlight.
Eugene Field gives a new turn to the idea by representing the werewolf curse as a definite atavistic throw-back.
There are interesting variants of the werewolf story, introducing other elements of supernaturalism.
Algernon Blackwood advances the theory that the werewolf is a true psychical fact of profound importance, however it may have been garbled by superstition.
In this case the husband of a beautiful young woman is a werewolf who during his savage metamorphosis tears her to pieces then disappears to return no more.
He thinks that the werewolf is the projection of the untamed slumbering sanguinary instincts of man, "scouring the world in his fluidic body, the body of desire.
Horace Walpole and Mrs. Radcliffe knew no thrills like those of Bram Stoker's Count Dracula who is an immemorial evil, a vampire and werewolf as well as man, with power to change himself into a vampire bat or animal of prey at will.
While lycanthropy has never been a frequent theme in fiction, the werewolf is a common figure, appearing in various forms of literature, from medieval ballads and legends to modern short stories.
In recent fiction the werewolf is represented as an involuntary and even unconscious departure from the human, who is shocked when he learns the truth about himself.
Again came an unconfirmed report that a shepherd lad while alternately playing on his Biniou and fishing for eels at the confluence of the Elle and Isole, had seen a werewolf in Laïs Woods.
Before I release it, you shall see for yourself," he said, "that the reality of the werewolf is beyond all question.
But now, follow me closely," he added, "for we must waste no time if I am to save this poor man from his affliction and lead his werewolf Double to its rest.
The werewolf is stronger, but the vampire is more stubborn.
And who is stronger, father,--the werewolf or the vampire?
For one whirling moment Padraig believed everything he had heard or read of werewolf or of loup-garou.
Say to your Abbot moreover that if he, or you, or any of your folk play us false they will find that a werewolf can hunt down anything that runs.
He did not exactly believe the werewolf story, although it had so impressed him that he could not help making the picture; but he did not like to think of it in connection with the mysterious absence of Brother Basil.
When it was found that everything upon which he could lay his hands had gone with him, some of the brethren were inclined to think the whole werewolf panic an invention of the steward's to hide his thieving.
After awhile a legend grew up and was told to the Welsh clerk Giraldus, about a werewolf who met a priest in the forest and begged him to give Christian aid and comfort to his dying mate.
It was not werewolf in the wood, it was not mermaid in the sea, but it was my wicked stepmother that wrought this cruel spell on me.
The evidence in support of the one was as clear and cogent as in support of the other; hence werewolf hunting and burning became as Christian a duty and as paying a profession as witch-smelling and torturing.
The werewolf superstition is extant among the North-Western Indians, but free from those diabolical features which characterised it in mediaeval times among ourselves.
The werewolf also appears in North America, duly furnished with his wolf-skin sack; but neither in America nor in Africa is he the genuine European werewolf, inspired by a diabolic frenzy, and ravening for human flesh.
Their share in maintaining the werewolf superstition is undeniable; but modern science finds in them nothing that cannot be readily explained.
According to one mediaeval notion, the soul of the werewolf quit its human body, which remained in a trance until its return.
A fourth method of becoming a werewolf was to obtain a girdle, usually made of human skin.
Sometimes a werewolf was cured merely by recognizing him while in his brute shape.
With respect to the mode of metamorphosis, there is little difference between the werewolf and the swan-maiden; and the similarity is no less striking between the genesis of the two conceptions.
The mythological basis of the werewolf superstition is now, I believe, sufficiently indicated.
But now, follow me closely,” he added, “for we must waste no time if I am to save this poor man from his affliction and lead his werewolf Double to its rest.
Before I release it, you shall see for yourself,” he said, “that the reality of the werewolf is beyond all question.
The force that his arm had given it had sent it far away towards the margin of the mere, to the same spot, indeed, where the werewolf had first been seen.
It was, as I believe, none other than the werewolf that I saw.
Allan, "I fear me that until the winter time comes there is but one wolf in all Bute, and that is the werewolf Aasta the Fair.
Then he walked back with his wife to the village, carrying the bamboo with the werewolf in it.
If the finger is not burnt, the man is no were-wolf; but if it is burnt, a werewolf he most assuredly is, so they take him away to a quiet spot and hack him to bits.
It was the stories of the commonest animal, the wolf, which crystallized into the household werewolf or transformation tales.
Old Saxon, Anglo-Saxon, Old High German, and werewolf a man in wolf's form.
The wolf disguise, or transformation into a werewolf was that most often assumed for example in Germanic lands.
Up to this point the illustrations have shown that the werewolf superstition went through various stages of development.
Later, in the Middle Ages, when the nature of the real disease came to be better understood, the werewolf superstition had become too firmly fixed to be easily uprooted.
The development in the case of names was perhaps the same as in the case of masks (note 57), and of the werewolf superstition itself (ante p.
The werewolf story could arise only where the animal, wolf, tiger or lion, etc.
To advance from this stage to the werewolf frenzy, our primitive man must have seen about him some exhibition of such a frenzy, and some reason for connecting this frenzy particularly with, say the wolf.
The original werewolfis the night-wind--a kind of leader of departed souls, howling in the wintry blasts.
In place of the earlier harmful werewolf is now the "harmful" night air.
The origin and development of the use of masks is very much the same as the origin and development of the werewolf as given in the preceding pages.
Assyrians; and Andree states, the oldest Hellenic werewolf myth is found in Pausanias (died 467 B.
Brit, under Lycanthropy: "In England by the 17th century the werewolf had long been extinct.
Lycanthropy became regarded as a species of witchcraft, thewerewolf as obtaining his powers from the Devil.
Probably the primitive Indo-European man before and at the time of the origin of the werewolf superstition, was almost helpless in the presence of inexorable nature.
I only called him a werewolf in his rôle as my husband and master.
The werewolf never thought me beautiful, for he'd nothing beautiful with which to see me.
Say that he became a werewolf because, as a child, he lost his belief in the justice of heaven, owing to the fact that, though innocent, he was punished for the misdeeds of another.
The Werewolf When Bruce left the quiet peace of The Place for the hell of the Western Front, it had been stipulated by the Mistress and the Master that if ever he were disabled, he should be shipped back to The Place, at their expense.
Horribly visible in every detail, theWerewolf was glaring at him.
The Werewolfcan be killed only by a silver bullet, marked with a cross and blessed by a priest.
Yonder hid the werewolf and his pack, and it would be folly to send them scattering just for the sake of advising Gregor that he was being watched over.
Now, although Harold was known far and wide as a mighty huntsman, he had never set forth to hunt the werewolf, and, strange enow, the werewolf never ravaged the domain while Harold was therein.
This werewolf was by day a man, but by night a wolf given to ravage and to slaughter, and having a charmed life against which no human agency availed aught.
The werewolf saw the shining weapon, and a cry burst from his gaping throat--a cry of human agony.
Then Harold answered, fixing his eyes on hers, "Thou hast said it; it is the werewolf that I fear.
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