There are tales of werewolves in Prussia, Latvia and an old kingdom of Livonia, experienced troubling times with werewolves. Huge packs of wolves threatened livestock, and killed cattle anytime of the year. Around 7th January was a traditional feast of the nativity of Christ, when people were active and gathering with food and drink in towns and villages. However, it was on that day that werewolves made themselves known and turned violent towards people. According to Swedish writer and traveller, Olaus Magnus, men turned into wolves and "spread to rage with wondrous ferocity against human beings, and those animals which are not wild, that the natives of these regions suffer more detriment from these, than they do from true and natural wolves." These werewolves could break into houses and kill all people and animals inside, even eating them.
Many people today blame it on rabid dogs, wolves ect but stay clear from the notion that these were men who were full of lycanthrope urges and transformed into wolves, or wolflike almost. That werewolves exist outside of cinema makes ordinary people laugh, but history is full of massacres like this. In that place, Olaus Magnus continues that the werewolves helped themselves to drinking beer during the atrocities! They had "burst into the beer cellars and there they empty the tons of beer or mead, and pile up empty casks one above another in the middle of the cellar, thus showing their difference from natural and genuine wolves."
Thousands of werewolves gathered outside the walls of a certain ruined castle between regions of Lithuania, Livonia and Courland. They all crowded there at night on a certain date and time, and attempt at climbing the wall by jumping or leaping. Those not fit enough or capable of doing this are set upon by the others.
Wolf Girl Night
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