How to Kill a Werewolf

WEREWOLVE IS BOYS NAKED
You will learn how to slay one of these feresome beasts.

First,you will learn about the enemy, to kill the beast you must know the beast.

Secondly, you will learn their weaknesses.

Thirdly, you will learn to exploit their weaknesses.

Lastly, you will learn what to do if you get bitten.

Step 1: Werewolf Knowledge and History

The legend of the werewolf is one of the most ancient and wide spread. Stories of werewolves can be found as far back as history has been written. These shape-shifter myth's can be found all over the word from China to Iceland and Brazil to Haiti.

The name Werewolf most likely derives from Old English wer (or were) and wulf. The first part, wer, translates as "man" (in the sense of male human, not the race of humanity). It has cognates in several Germanic languages including Gothic wair, Old High German wer and Old Norse var, as well as in other Indo-European languages, such as Latin vir, Lithuanian vyras and Welsh gwr, which have the same meaning.

The second half, wulf, is the ancestor of modern English "wolf"; in some cases it also had the general meaning "beast". An alternative etymology derives the first part from Old English weri (to wear); the full form in this case would be glossed as wearer of wolf skin.

TIMELINE OF THE WEREWOLF

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

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

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

1981 - An American Werewolf in London (film) includes first four-footed werewolf

1985 - Death of Shamdeo

1988 - Monsieur X arrested McLean Hospital survey published

1989 - The first sighting of the beast of Bray Road

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

1991 - "The Wolfman" escapes from Broadmoor

All in all, bad history... Recently there have been asightings of werewolves in Bosnia. Transformations will be disscused in a later section.

Comments

[kdrago]

i personally believe werewolves are ok but my kind, vampires are absoulutely awesome... no offence intended to and werewolves

[nightclasher878]

WEREWOLVES ROCK

[lycanthrope1]

im a werewolf and i get burned by silver,and i agree with Saphira13 on why would any one would want to kill werewolves

[lasr1]

Roleplay. What are you talking about? I am one too and I'll tell you one thing, SILVER DOESN'T BURN! Unless of course you are allergic to it.

[nightclasher878]

i am a werewolf too

[lycanthrope1]

im allergic to it because i devoloped an allergy to it

[Sharkywerevampire]

i am sure you are lying, and if you are, i will hunt you down. i know if someone is lying.

[lasr1]

You developed it? Wouldn't you have been born with it?

[pyromaniac21]

us fuzzy puppys dont like pretty shiney silver it (it burns)

[nightclasher878]

stop calling you're own kind fuzzy puppys

[nightclasher878]

that should change you're opinion

[lasr1]

No it doesn't.

[Trevor Belmont]

here's a theory: it USED to burn but over time your werewolf DNA gained an immunity to it over the years therefore now rendering it useless

[Glitch50]

I heard a rumor that some werewolves actually become stronger when exposed to silver.

[amizonianwolf]

has anyone ever thought of wolfsbane AKA aconite as a weakness it is said to hurt og kill them if used to lase a silver bullet =]

[amizonianwolf]

umm i see way to many people go off the impression that twilight is real facts its funny really i am a werewolf myself so shut up you dumb vampire =]

[garden burger]

Werewolves suck! especially jacob black! Vampires are cool though. in case you can't tell I <3 twilight! i am obsesed

[Sharkywerevampire]

you are a big ol' jerk. i am so offended.

[TheShadowChild]

Hey I'm developing a vampirism cure for my girlfriend. Well by that I mean going through a old vampire tomb of a vampire god of resurrection.

[TheShadowChild]

I was born with werewolf blood but somehow I could destroy the cells before turning.

[Glitch50]

troll begone!

[lasr1]

I have never read or seen twilight. It annoys me. You suck! I am a werewolf. Come find me. I'll kick your ***!!!

[Sharkywerevampire]

and i will help

[crouchingwolf]

ditto.

[Mr. Brownie]

Lycan do not suck, especially Jacob Black. Us Vampyre think lycan are alright.

[amizonianwolf]

well thank you we werewolves are not just simple minded animals

[RMConstruction]

 THANK you!

Finally someone who thinks we're good!

(Which we are...)

[Sharkywerevampire]

no ur not.

[RMConstruction]

Get a life, get a book on grammar, and stop necroposting.

[angelique desdemonia]

i see, if you like vampires, read anne rice the vampire lestat

[lobo_pal]

Werewolves kick vampire coffin, werewolves are totally better.

[Sharkywerevampire]

yup.

[angelique desdemonia]

no, we are better than those hounds

[lasr1]

You tell yourself that. But why don't you stop talking and start doing?

[lobo_pal]

If you ask me, there are way too many ways to kill a vampire.

[lasr1]

Yes. There are.

[lobo_pal]

Plus they don't even blend well, just look for the pale and throw holy water on him, jeez.

[Sharkywerevampire]

i killed 20 of them already. i hate the creatures.

[lobo_pal]

Not nearly, werewolves have fangs and claws, last time I checked vampires only have fangs.

[KainX]

oh my gosh another war i see -_- i thought all this stuff was settled a long time ago .... i guess i gotta call my cousin whos a compromiser