The WereWolf and Shifter HandBook

Everything you ever wanted to know about Werewolves, but were afraid to ask



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.



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"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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