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Shapeshifters
I've read about four or five WW werewolf books. Yeah, yeah, it's role playing, but I've looked into some things mentioned in the book and they match legend.
Example 1: A tribe called Wendigo
"A creature of the forests featured in the mythology of many North American and Canadian native peoples. Algonquin tribes believe that a hunter lost in the bush without food may become a wendigo, seeking other human beings in order to eat their flesh. Members of the Ojibwa tribe use the term 'windigo' to denote a ferocious ogre who will take away children if they do not behave properly.
"A powerful horror story called "The Wendigo" was written by novelist Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951). It was first published in "The Lost Valley and Other Stories," London, 1910. It was probably drawn from legends encountered by the author during his own travels in the Canadian backwoods.
"In 1982 John Colombo assembled a comprehensive compilation of accounts (both traditonal and modern)on the Wendigo. He observed:
'Windigo has been described as the phantom of hungar which stalks the forests of the north in search of lone Indians, halfbreeds, or white men to consume. It may take the form of a cannibalistic Indian who breathes flames. Or it may assume the guise of a supernatural spirit with a heart of ice that flies through the night skies in search of a victim to satisfy its craving for human flesh. Like the campire, it feasts on flesh and blood. Like the werewolf, it shape-changes at will.' "
Pg. 1393 of Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. Vol. 2 M-Z
Example 2: A Tribe called the Black Furies
According to legend, Uranus, the lord of the sky, fathered the Titans upon Gaia, the earth. Uranus was afraid of his children and hid them within the body of their mother. Gaia couldn't bear it any longer, so she persuaded her youngest son, Cronus, to attack her husband. Cronus took a sickle and castrated his father. When his blood fell upon the earth, his wife, she conceived and bore the Furies.
They came into being out of an act of revenge that was done in defense of their mother, and it is the rights of mothers, even when unjust, that they uphold their ferocity.
The Furies, all three women, were names Alecto 'The Endless'; Tisiphone 'The Retaliator'; and Megaera 'The Envious Rager'.
Their main duty was to avenge those murdered by their kin.
The Greek word for Furies was Erinyes, and they were also called Maniai 'raging women', and more interestingly, Eymenides 'The Kindly Ones." That last name may have been given them prudence and, almost, wish-fulfillment, rather as the Black Sea, noted for it's violent storms, was called the Euxine or 'the Calm'.
Hence, we have the Black Furies. That just kind of struck me as odd and interesting. I think there's a bit of truth behind everything, or a lot of truth.
Example: The Lupins
"In many parts of France, but more especially perhaps in Britanny, Le Meneur des Loups is a well known figure. He is generally considered to be a wizard, who when the werewolves of the district have met and sit in a hideous circle round a fire kindled in the heart of some forest, leads forth the howling pack and losses them on to their horrid chase. Sometimes he himself assumes the form of a wolf, but speaks with human voice. Gathering his flock around him he gives them directions, telling them what afrm-towns are ill- guarded that night, what flocks, what herds, are negligently kept, which path the lonely wayfarer setting out from the inn is taking...
In Normandy tradition tells of certain fantastic beings known as lupins or lubins. The pass the night chattering together and twattling in an unknown tongue. They take their stand by the walls of country cemeteries, and howl dismally at the moon. Timorous and fearful of man they will flee away scared at a footstep or distant voice. In some districts, however, they are fierce and of the werewolf race, since they are said to scratch up the graves with their hands, and gnaw the poor dead bones."
~Montague Summers, The Werewolf
I'm wondering if these would be the derranged werewolves that are spoken of in certain books. Ah, well! You never know.
Example: The Mokole or Mokele
"In the 1980s, several expiditons were mounted to search for a supposed surviving dinosaur in the Congo region of Africa. This Mokele-Mbembe was already mentioned in Heuvelmans' (1962) seminal work. Natives shown photos and drawings of extant and extinct animals apparently pick sauropods as most closely resembling the Mokele. It is described as amphibious, solitary living vegitarian with a special liking for certain vines that bear one to ten inch fruit." Recomended Reading, "A Living Dinosaur?" Mackal 1987.
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