Realms of Fantasy and Myth: Week 20 - Werewolves

Oct 27, 200917 min read

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Published: Oct 27, 2009

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Realms of Fantasy and Myth: Week 20 - Werewolves

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This week's creature feature is: Werewolves

From Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werewolv… :

A werewolf or werwolf, also known as a lycanthrope, is a mythological or folkloric human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf or an anthropomorphic wolf-like creature, either purposely, by being bitten or scratched by another werewolf, or after being placed under a curse. This transformation is often associated with the appearance of the full moon, as popularly noted by the medieval chronicler Gervase of Tilbury, although it may have been recognized in earlier times among the ancient Greeks through the writings of Petronius.
Werewolves are often granted extra-human strength and senses, far beyond those of both wolves or men. The werewolf is generally held as a European character, although its lore spread through the world in later times.
Werewolves are a frequent subject of modern fictional books, although fictional werewolves have been attributed traits distinct from those of original folklore, most notably the vulnerability to silver bullets. Werewolves continue to endure in modern culture and fiction, with books, films and television shows cementing the werewolf's stance as a dominant figure in horror.
The form a werewolf assumes was generally anthropomorphic in early films such as "The Wolf Man" and "Werewolf of London", but larger and powerful wolf in many later films.
The transmogrification process is often portrayed as painful in film and literature within the horror genre. The resulting wolf is typically cunning but merciless and prone to killing and eating people without compunction, regardless of the moral character of its human counterpart.
Werewolves are often depicted as immune to damage caused by ordinary weapons, being vulnerable only to silver objects, such as a silver-tipped cane, bullet or blade. This negative reaction to silver is sometimes so strong that the mere touch of the metal on a werewolf's skin will cause burns. Current-day werewolf fiction almost exclusively involves lycanthropy being either a hereditary condition or being transmitted like an infectious disease by the bite of another werewolf. In some fiction, the power of the werewolf extends to human form, such as invulnerability, super-human speed and strength and falling on their feet from high falls. Also aggressiveness and animalistic urges may be harder to control. Usually in these cases the abilities are diminished in human form. In other fictions it can even be cured by medicine men or even antidotes.

Now, for the features! Works are featured from various categories, in no particular order:

Werewolf carving template by Darksilvania

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Werewolf Calender 2009 - July by Novawuff

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A Little Taste Of Chrom by DragonSlayerSSDD

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Wolf in the Moon -tribal- by Nashoba-Hostina

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The Werewolves of Tower Crag by dcbats2000

Drake the werewolf 2009 by Werewolfsense

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