This HandBook is an attempt to present information on real WereCreatures, both the Werewolves and such of folklore from around the world, continued sightings of such things in modern times, and people who claim to be WereCreatures today in the modern world.
The countless books and articles which
have examined the Lycanthropy
myths from the standpoint of "this can't possibly be true" are repetitive
and boring. It's much more fun to examine the myths from the standpoint
of "much of this is true".
So, have you ever thought about the possibility of the existance of real Werewolves, Werecats, Werebears, Werefoxes, and other such creatures? Can creatures who shift their physical body from human to animal and back exist?
Known by the names Werewolf, Werwolf, Veerwolf, Oberoten, Loup-garou, Mactire, Bisclaveret, Varulv, and many others, shapeshifters of various types definately exist in folklore.
Things like this could exist in real life, there is no question of that. Proving the possibility of the existance of something is generally easy. But do they really exist? Decide for yourself, do your own research, you have no reason to believe my anonymous sources and my interpretations.
Folklore, sightings and reports come from modern days to ancient times,
Werewolves stalk through moonlit nights in modern Las Vegas, rural
Kentucky, the Irish Countryside, in Brazil, all over the world. In
ancient times, yes, even just a hundred years ago, come too many reports
to dismiss, too many eyewitness sightings, too many patterns falling into
place click-click-click all over the world, over hundreds and thousands
of years, in very different cultures that have very different belief
systems and attitudes to Were-ness. Ignored in hard-to-find books, many
out of print, found in nearly every body of recorded folklore, whether
from modern african tribes or ancient sweden of eight hundred years
ago, the reports are far too numerous to dismiss. Because few people are
interested in them nowadays, many people believe that there are only a
few reports proceeding from the superstitious past and the visions of
villiage idiots, yet this is far from true. Very few people have
ever bothered to report the village idiot's babbling. The reports come from
large groups
of prestigious people, doctors, army officials as well as hordes of
simple common people. Husbands, wives, neighbors, children, freinds and
many others tell intimate stories in folklore of living with physical
shapeshifters on a daily basis, court records produce evidence that is
hard to dismiss as simple hallucination or lies, and many other sources
tell the same stories, the same patterns.
The truth is that Werecreatures do exist nowadays (a lot more exist today than you would think) and have existed in the past in every society, every culture, every people. Not only have they existed but the patterns are the same over too many various cultures that couldn't easily have culturally influenced each other's folklore. And modern Werewolves and Werecreatures fit the same patterns found in folklore the world over, NOT the current "mythos" of Werewolves that is based entirely on movies and books and is far removed from modern-day real sightings and ancient folklore. If these people who think they are Werecreatures are simply people catching onto a cultural icon, one would not expect WereCreatures to conform in their "hallucinations" to ancient, little-known folklore instead of the current media image. Yet most real WereCreatures are probably not like what you picture when you think of them. That is because most people picture the bloodthisty furry person that is the Werewolf of modern "myth", the fictional creatures that stalk through hordes of movies. Most WereCreatures are very different from that, in many ways. In fact, most do not physically change.....yet.
Interested? Then try reading the rest of The Shapeshifter and Werewolf HandBook for a whole bunch of chapters and essays dealing with the subject, the sources are real WereCreatures living today and folklore (both ancient and modern sightings).
And don't be frightened, WereCreatures are mostly a pretty nice bunch of
creatures (unlike most vampyres) and they are rarely mentally ill or
anything
like that. The best way to picture Werewolves are closer to something
like your cats, (Dogs are tame animals, hardly any wild left in them, cats
are wild still and fairly Wolflike) things that are harmless and
freindly, yet wild with a nightlife all their own, and a few "disgusting"
but harmless habits like constantly dragging dead rabbits into the house
as loving gifts to win your approval.
Note to search services and everyone: This pages does or will contain material not appropriate for children. Please do not let children access this page. This page contains some very disturbing ideas and concepts.
Note: this HandBook is unfinished and
won't be finished for a while.
Chapters which are not yet finished will be marked with an Under
Construction.
But even finished chapters will probably have a little added from time to
time.
Disclaimer:This whole handbook is based on opinion (some mine, some not),
folklore, rumors, many anonymous sources,
guesswork, pattern observation,
stories,
and flights of fancy. Do not
hold me responsible for the "absolute truthfulness" of these statements,
I cannot conduct a proper statistical study on Werewolves and
Shapeshifters. If you disagree, plagarize this Handbook, modify it to
suit your own opinions, and post it on the web. [Note: this material is
copyrighted and permission is NOT given to publish it for profit or
distribute it to others who do not know of the fact that permission is
NOT given to publish it for profit. Free distribution is okay. The
graphics here are not copyrighted by me or anyone as far as I know,
except for the eric elliot werewolf, which has a copyright on it,
however it is being freely distributed over the net by many people, so
maybe it's one of those images that is okay to distribute as long as the
copyright is intact, but I don't know]
Note: Anonymous quotes will be sprinkled throughout this HandBook. Some will be reconstructed from conversations to the best of my memory, some will be modifyed in certain ways such as leaving out irrelevant comments or condensed for length or clarity, or changing names so that identitys are not given away.
Why are nearly all the modern shifter sources anonymous? Simple, because I included some non-anonymous sources when I first made this HandBook and it really caused nasty problems for a whole bunch of Shifters I know and love. Thus, since I'd rather convert all my sources to anonymous than hurt some good friends or destroy this HandBook, I did so. If you don't believe I have sources because they are anonymous, that's ok with me.
To those who think of sending me weird e-mail because of this: I am not an expert on Shifters, I have never seen a mental shift or physical shift, and I do not reply to arguing e-mail over this HandBook. I see no reason to repeat my opinions to you in e-mail when you can read them right here, and I see no need to remind you to not take this too seriously. However, I am not deliberately giving you false information or playing around with you, this HandBook is meant to be about real WereCreatures and I have not made up any of this stuff, I have sources (many anonymous, for good reasons) for all of this material.
The purpose of this handbook is to help people who think they might be Shifters (Shifters: the politically correct slang for all sorts of WereCreatures, including those who don't shift in any way), inform freinds of Shifters, and try to dispell the bad reputation and harmful myths that WereCreatures in general currently have.
If you think you are a Shifter and want help or more information, please hang in there and respect yourself, but don't bother me with e-mail. I wrote this HandBook as a resource for WereCreatures, but I don't have the time or energy to personally attend to your questions. When this HandBook is finished, you can email me with suggestions of areas of interest that need to be covered here, but aren't.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Practical Aspects of
Being a Shifter
Aren't People who think they
are WereWolves just drug/alcohol influenced hallucinators?
Aren't People who think they
are WereWolves just Insane? And Probably dangerous?
Aren't People who think
they are WereWolves just New Age Freaks?
The fear of Shifters:
the way the world reacts to Mental Shifters and Physical Shifters
Under Construction
Modern Shifters living
in the Real World
Modern Werewolf and Shifter
AnecdotesUnder Construction
Werewolf and Shifter ArtUnder
Construction
Werewolf and Shifter PoetryUnder
Construction
Werewolf and Shifter DreamsUnder
Construction
ArticlesUnder Construction
Why are so many
Shifters WereWolves? Why aren't there more of other kinds of
Animals? Under Construction
Totem Animals
Under Construction
How Shifters percieve
themselves
The Desert Moon
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The WereWolf as it is seen by
Popular American Culture
Why Wolves are Not
Dogs Under Construction
How I see
Wolves Under Construction
What to do if a
Werewolf attacks you
The Characteristics of real
WereWolves and Shifters Under Construction
Werecats and other
non-Werewolf werecreatures Under Construction
Clinical
Lycanthropy: modern psychology's view of "werewolf delusions"
Under Construction
Feral Children:
children presumably raised by animals Under Construction
The Physical Changes
that would be involved if a Human changed into a Wolf
Are You a WereWolf? How
can you tell? How can you tell if your friend is a WereWolf?
If Physically
Shapeshifting Werewolves are real, then why don't we hear
about them? Under Construction
Physical Shifting can't
be real? Can it? Under Construction
WereWolves and the
Paranormal Under Construction
The Real History of
WereWolves Under Construction
WereWolves, the Bible,
and Christianity
Famous People Suspected to Be Werewolves and
Other WereCreaturesUnder Construction
Finding AnswersUnder Construction
What About
Witches? Under Construction
What About Wendigowak?Under Construction
What About
Vampires? Under Construction
"We humans fear the beast within the wolf because we do not understand
the beast within ourselves"---Gerald Hausman
There are truths, and there are deep truths. The opposite of a truth is a falsehood, but the opposite of a deep truth is another deep truth. An example of a deep truth is "We are all one", another deep truth is "We are all separate". For a number of Shifters and such, "I am a therianthrope" is a deep truth.
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Happy Hunting
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