Tuesday, 21 February 2023

The undead werewolf woman



In Romanian folklore is the Pricolici, a malicious shapeshifter. It's often considered a type of werewolf entity but it's more than that. It's undead, or the manifestation of a soul transported into a Pricolici, a shapeshifter that could appear either as a human being or an animal, mostly a wold. Their purpose is to cause dangerous serious harm and fulfil a curse. Other Romanian versions believe the Pricolici was once a deceased werewolf but came back as a vampire. It helped to explain the belief that vampires could transform into animals. A Pricolici is nocturnal. People fear these entities and some have sought protection against them. It's understood that a Pricoloci is different to the average wolf, because it attacks quietly and alone, it has a connection to a particular victim such as a person who was cursed, or who is a member of the same family, while curses can attack the same bloodlines. 

As recent as the 1950's a certain family was targeted by the same "wolf" who savagely attacked all of the relatives including a woman named Maria. They lived in a remote village near the Banat Mountains. There had not been any wolves in the area for over a century. Yet this strange wolf appeared out of nowhere, and attacked several members of this family. Some of the survivors were left with terrible scars, and others were killed. Only the little daughter was spared as though the dangerous wolf purposely didn't want to hurt the child. One day this wolf was tracked down and then killed by a hunter. It turned out that this wolf was female with only two mammary glands. There was no trace of the she-wolf to be found to indicate where she had been living. It was said that a long time ago, a relative of the family were given a curse by an old woman before she died. Some believe that this she-wolf was the old woman who returned from the dead to fulfil the curse on the family. 

Wolf Girl Night 

Wednesday, 8 February 2023

King Lycaon

 


The very first known werewolf is in Greek mythology and his name is King Lycaon. He was a king of Arcadia, a land appearing in both ancient legend and modern times. He had many children with his wives including Nonacris and Cellene, beautiful nymphs. Among the countless children of King Lycaen and Queen Nonacris was their daughter Callisto, who later would become a sorceress. One of the sons of Lycaon was Nyctimus, who became the first victim of werewolf cruelty. He was killed by his own father and then cooked. King Lycaon wanted to test if the god Zeus was all knowing, and then the king served his roasted son to the god as an offering. Zeus was so angry and horrified that he turned king Lycaon into a wolf. Then Nyctimus was given back his life and body fully restored. In memory of King Lycaon was the city of Lycosura, now a ruin, and the Lycaean Games, held at Mount Lykaion, which itself has two peaks that resemble a wolf's ears, and it's also called "Wolf Mountain". 

Wolf Girl Night 

Wednesday, 25 January 2023

Blood rage of lycanthropes


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