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- From: rtsumn01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu
- Subject: re: question about lycanthropes
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- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.222359.1@ulkyvx.louisville.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 02:23:59 GMT
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- References: <1992Nov18.025534.2899@wixer.cactus.org>
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- In article <1992Nov18.025534.2899@wixer.cactus.org>, thorfinn@wixer.cactus.org (Thorfinn Einarsson) writes:
- >
- >> pw15@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Philip Wang) wrote:
- >>(well, some werewolves are created through devil worship - that much I
- >>remember - I think by wearing a wolfskin and dancing around some Satanic icon
- >>and doing some other stuff) or otherwise night creatures.
- >
- > Please cite your source. In most cases, "devil worship" , called as such
- > by the christian paradigm, relates to the activities of pre-christian
- > pagans (heathens). Satan or The Devil usually appears in christian
- > dominated societies and is used as an excuse for the church's firm grip
- > over the sheep (I mean people).
-
- True, but by the Middle Ages werewolves were firmly linked in the popular mind
- with witchcraft and vampirism. I suspect that by that time anyone attempting to
- become a werewolf would genuinely have believed that they were worshipping
- Satan, rather than a pagan god. The fact that were-creatures exist outside
- Xianity does not exclude Satanism as one mode of werewolfism.
-
- Yours under the full moon,
- --Semhaza
-