Halloween Special: Werewolves
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- čas přidán 28. 10. 2021
- You know 'em, you love 'em, but you might not know 'em quite as well as you think you do! Today let's dive into one of the big-name creatures of the night!
Huge thanks to Maegan A. Stebbins, aka "Maverick-Werewolf", for reaching out to help me with the research on this one! Check out maverickwerewolf.com/ for more of her stuff!
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Medieval Werewolves: "On all levels except physical, I am a wolf."
I was gonna say, the whole ‘spirit wolf’ thing never fully went away.
The idea we actually change has always made me chortle....
Imagine! You Humans think such outrageous things...youre so silly.....
Wolfkin is older than anyone could've guessed.
“Arf!”
This made me laugh so much
God-approved werewolves would be an interesting reason for why they hate vampires.
Holy shit the plot of van helsing is making alot more sense now.
@@sir_stride I'm pretty sure the Van Helsing movie called werewolves the 'Hounds of God' pulling from lore about the werewolves that fight evil witches.
This sounds like it's related to Powerwolf.....
@@livecatgrenades I was going to make a reference to Powerwolf right now
This gave me an idea of a story in which a person way for redemption is that they have to be an vampire hunting werewolf
Learning about King Lycaon of Lycosura makes a werewolf named "Remus Lupin" seem downright subtle by comparison.
Well, at least the name of the werewolf is not Jack Russell
@@elizabethmagovern9250 Now I want a werewolf named Jack Russell
@@immabethehero1486 i could be wrong but i think that’s marvel’s werewolf by night’s name
@@Eddie_da_head_ Oh right
I'm legitimately not sure if JK Rowling meant it to be a twist but made it too obvious or if it was meant to be a red herring for why Snape didn't like him.
That scientist who corrected himself is an absolute hero but no one listened.
The scientist who corrected himself about vaccines causing autism wasn't listened to, either.
@@arthurjeremypearson When did he realize he was wrong? I haven't heard anything about him recanting his previous opinion.
@@GrumpyLoco6 22:35
About alphas?
@@michellemcmichael4680 yes
Catholic monks probably: "I'm not SAYING it's magic because that would be heresy, but it looks KINDA like 'magic'."
Well no, it can still be white/light magic, if practiced for example by nuns, the middle age means everyones catholic, but if it isn't godly it's satanic.
Friendship is magic and MAGIC IS HERESY! *Loads bolter with violent intent*
@@comandercarnis Is it truly heresy if it's magic used in the name of the God Emperor? I don't know about you, but I very much find enjoyment in searing the flesh of Humanity's enemies with the power of the sun in the palm of my hands while taking on a form that strikes fear into their very souls, or lack thereof.
For ancient monks, the line between a miracle and magic is basically "Did god do it? Miracle. Did a woman/pagan do it? Magic and therefore heresy." With the only caveat being that they thought everyone who wasn't Christian was absolutely a Pagan and no they were not interested in the difference between non-Christian religions thank you very much.
Your ignorance is appalling .
The reason it's a monster is because it is outside of natural law , which places it in the supernatural.
It is a transformational spell of the black arts , which takes a powerful
Coven of witch's to do.its possible
Only in the autumn under a full moon. Because of its nature it' is evil., therefore a supernatural evil of the black arts , a transformation spell broken only by sliver, an arrow with a sliver arrow head would work just as well , the point is sliver breaks this transformation spell.
Yes it is black magic , yes black magic is real , yes a werewolf is very
Possible . no I don't know of any in
Modern times , but then satanist don't quite walk around with snap shots of werewolfs in their wallet to show you , if you ever seen one most likely you wouldn't survive .
My favorite take is how Discworld’s werewolves point out that the halfway point between a wolf and a human… is a dog
I was hoping someone would mention Angua
And how the "evil" part of evil werewolves comes from the human side, not the wolf side.
Uggghhh, what was the name of that crazy mini poodle that killed dobermans because it thought wolves were just crazy violent like that?
@@elizabethlowes6501 Big Fido! God I need to re-read some of those books.
Lol
The creator of the witch trials being a creepy Incel makes too much sense.
I think he just gives the whole movement a bad reputation. I'm sure their were plenty of popular and charismatic fanatic sadists.
@@ethanstine426 fanatic sadists who are charismatic and popular have a name. Cult leaders. That's how one guy's power fantasy delusions turn into genocides.
A lot of human history is just everyone rallying behind one fanatic sadist, because he used charisma to become popular and whoever wasn't on his side got brutalized until they were.
Yeah, it definitely explains SO much! And greedy/powerful people jumping on the witch trial bandwagon (while pushing it in the guise of it being"morally/socially acceptable") most likely really didn't help it either (oof)... 0_0
Show off hands,
Who’s not surprised?
@@Grim_Sister Not even a little.
"Werewolves are warriors of god who fight demons and whitches"
"BLESSED AND POSSESSED!!!"
I see the Powerwolf reference! I'm loving seeing the overlap in their fandom with OSP ;)
Welcome friend!
Powerwolf is Blessed & Possessed,
But I'm just Stressed & Depressed
Yes! Army of the Night, stand as one! Tonight the pack will hunt and feast!
*Powerwolf intensifies*
I adore and hate the idea that a whole genre of erotic fiction was generated cause ONE SCIENTIST messed up ONCE. Thank you ABO fan fiction writers, immortalizing a mans mistakes one enemies to lovers at a time.
😂😂😂
W-what is ABO?
@@the24thcolossusjustchillin39 i second this question.
@@the24thcolossusjustchillin39 If you truly want an explanation I can provide it, it's not as terrifying as some people make it out to be but.. don't google it too deeply probably
@@lilliefluff I would like you to elaborate
"The modern werewolf is a flexible beast."
Now THAT sounds like a line from some erotica.
Cant like to maintain the 420 likes
Furries lmao
Something something 14 werewolves.
UwU
I had reach, she had flexibility. It was brutal.
I find it hilarious how even the SPANISH INQUISITION thought Kramer was twisted
I get the feeling Kramer is actually where we get a lot of the negative parts of the popular inquisitor archetype. The actual inquisition wasnt good to be clear. They would absolutely torture people for confessions, interestingly though at least some understood that such confessions werent useful, and would occasionally hand people over to the secular courts to be executed but they were generally significantly less bloodthirsty than they appear in the modern imagining. With a quick look, the absolute bloodiest estimate I found was about 3% of cases that the Spanish Inquisition, which was one of the bloodier ones, tried ended in execution. Generally the punishment theyd hand out would be some form of penance. You had to mess up a lot for them to send you to be executed.
After his incident at the Laugh Factory, how could they not?
to be fair, the Spanish Inquisition had high standards (for the time) and did not usually find people guilty of witchcraft... heretics on the other hand, that is another story.
Now THAT is something nobody expected.
NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition's humanity!
If someone is using a wolf pelt as a garment, that’s a wear-wolf.
If they have a wolf they are looking to sell, that’s a ware-wolf
And if the wolf has achieved enlightenment, that’s an aware-wolf.
And if you can't find him, he's a where ? Wolf.
And if they think this joke has run its course, that’s a weary-wolf.
And if they're here to warn you, they're a Beware-wolf.
And if they're pushing you to do something stupid, they're a Dare-wolf.
And if they serve a dragon, they're a Weyr-wolf.
And if they're shaking with excitement, they're a Whir-wolf.
You guys are acting like such worry-wolves
_BA DUM TSSSH_
"They weren't actually werewolves, they were just hallucinating so hard that everyone else started hallucinating."
Why is this sentence funny to me
heh and officaly that's what the catholic church and christains as a whole went by to try and at least settle the matter with various approaches of explination. the church don't mind the lot at all.
So, like mass hysteria?
@@ryoumakoushiro7447 no, vodka hangover
@@metaparalysis3441 Wait, usual friday night too?
@@ryoumakoushiro7447 while funkin’
Me: “Hey Red, is this a Halloween Special, a Miscellaneous Myth, or a Trope Talk?”
Red: “Yes”
So hearing the words "Usually Outdated views of Wolf Hierarchy" and "In charge not because they're the biggest and baddest but by virtue of being mom and dad" I'm immediately jumping to 'Werewolf Mafia Story.'
Close-knit family structure mirroring the pack dynamics with a hierarchy based on old-school loyalty to "The Family" rather than strength.
how's writing it going?
Werewolf Mafia? so like the Wise Guys from Werewolf The Apocalypse
Cool, and they could have something to do with the wolf that fed Romulus and Remus as their origin.
Yessssss
I think Pratchett did it with Angua's dysfunctional family? Tho they were more aristocratic assholes than your run off the mill "give im an offer he can't refuse" pasta eaters....
D&D campaign idea: "oops! All werewolves!" Druid who turns into a wolf, ranger with a wolf companion and able to talk to wolves, Barbarian whose "rage" is turning into a wolf-man hybrid, and a wizard who is fond of polymorph spells turning other people into wolves.
And only one of them actually has lycanthropy and no one knows who.
@@gorblintown8836 Two of my party are determined to get lycanthropy because of the werewolf plot going on.
I know that they know it won’t end well.
Lords of the Wild for Pathfinder 1e has just about everything you mentioned as options and more.
God I love this concept
Werewolves, werewolves everywhere.
Fun fact, they're only called werewolves because they're really good at hiding. If you could find one, it'd be a therewolf.
There wolf...there castle :=)
Everyones saying werewolf but no ones asking howwolf
@@sergeantsainsburys9181 What about 'wowwolf'? :=)
What about yikeslookathatthingrightthereblimeywowCrickeywolf
@@sergeantsainsburys9181 OK. You win :=)
Honestly the "Psychic Werewolves who fight witches in the dream world" is rad as fuck and needs to be a novel/anime/tabletop game asap
I agree it's cool as hell
Try the manga series "QQ Sweeper" by Kyousuke Motomi. But I agree I totally want more of this!
Already is. Highly suggest you check out Werewolf: The Forsaken and Werewolf: The Apocalypse by White Wolf
Isn't this a thing in The Wheel of Time
The tabletop game company White Wolf published this in the '90s. It's a tabletop rpg (similar in concept to dungeons and dragons) with two separate games taking place in the same universe. In one, you play as vampires, with all the possible trope combinations therein. The other you play as werewolves, and some of them do battle in dreams, while others fight in reality.
I've never played it, but it seems pretty crazy.
"Today's hot take: the witch hunts were bad, actually."
Why would you say something so controversial yet so brave?
becay its a bad take. burning heretics is as the youngsters says: based and red peal
@@yuvalgabay1023 "heretics" = people who don't think like you. That's pretty sadistic and sick ngl.
@@yuvalgabay1023 Typical of chistians though.
“The Ordo Hereticus of The Emperor’s Most Holy Inquisition would like to have a word.”
That’s probably more controversy than CZcams can tolerate! Banned!
Red missed an opportunity to say, “‘No one expected the Spanish Inquisition’ to be against burning a witch.”
The inquisition was not interested in witches, only in heretics
I'm shocked Zeus turned that guy into a wolf, as opposed to turning himself into a wolf and forcibly fornicating with some random woman.
That probably happened too at somepoint lost history or not I'm sure there is or was at some point there's myth about that
*Candy Shop starts playing*
I mean, unrelated to this myth, but in some versions, Lycaon is the father of Callisto (of the constellation Ursa Major fame), who was a victim of Zeus’ conquests
@@noahberlitz5553 Zeus was truly the Bill Cosby of the Greek pantheon
You imply he didn't....
Other cultures: "Horrible divine curse. Such shame, have to avoid hurting anyone."
Ireland: "Hahah, guy can turn into wolf, have charming hunting adventures with family."
Ireland is surprisingly wholesome for a country whose cultural stereotype is drinking too much
Ok but can you imagine that chaos every time the family goes out hunting?
Assuming only one family member turns into a wolf at a time, every single guy in the family, regardless of age, would want to be the wolf all the time, because it f*cking rocks.
@@boglenight1551 That only exists because the English drove them to drink and then mocked them for the habit.
@@lysanamcmillan7972 They also forced the people to only eat potatoes, didn't help the population when the potatoes became inedible due to a fungus and then make jokes at their expense despite being the main cause of the problem.
Monster fan:The most recommended werewolf fictions are The Wolfman, Werewolf By Night(marvel comic book series), An American Werewolf In London, The Howling, Wolfen, A Company Of Wolves, Silver Bullet, Bad Moon, An American Werewolf In Paris, Underworld, Van Helsing, and the Wolfman remake.
Somebody:But what about Twilight, Vampires Diaries, and the Teen Wolf show since they…
Monster fan:OH NO NO NO! F#$& THOSE! THOSE ARE NOT EVEN TRUE WEREWOLVES! THOSE ARE A BUNCH OF MALE CALVIN KLEIN UNDERWEAR MODELS FOR CHEAP AND LAZY PUBERTY-TRIGGERING AND TWEENYBOPPER FAN SERVICE!
Any comments?
Suggestion for next year: Fairies cuz their history is super fascinating and mysterious and the fact "Halloween Fairy" isn't an aesthetic is downright criminal
Given the Avalon Lostbelt, that would be a great examination.
Agreed. The fact that they've been Disneyfied into cutesy lawn ornaments is just infuriating to me.
@@daviddaugherty2816 that's just part of the secret Fae agenda so that humans think they're cute and harmless when they come to reclaim their world lmao
I think the main issue would be fairies are too broad. Pretty much any folkloric creature not an angel or a devil falls under the fairy field. If you’re not specifically counting things that are explicitly called fairies either, then Jinn and Yokai also fall under that umbrella.
@@teogonzalez7957 that's true but in that case they could still be discussed on Trope Talk. They did the same thing with Dragons and even compared their broadness and universality to fairies. I can definitely see Red at least explaining the history behind their etymology and portrayal.
Not Prep enough to be a Vampire?
Not Jock enough to be a Werewolf?
GOBLIN IT IS!!!
Goblin Slayer: *Triggered*
May I introduce you to the Scholomance? Romanian wizards who ride dragons and control storms
@@eazy8579 Sounds epic
Prep = Vampire
Jock = Werewolf
Goth = Demon
Nerd = ???
@@aformofmatter8913 Elf
Came to learn about werewolves, ended up learning about how the kick-off of witch hunts was a monk letting a confident woman live rent free in his head.
Crazy how that happens
Yeah, that was not rent free lol, he tried to get her killed and stalked. Absolutely ridiculous what one guy could do though.
But honestly, are you surprised by that?
Fun to find out that the original witch hunts have more in common with Gamergate than I thought.
@@jjj7790 it's depressing how people like that still exist...
The fact that the witch hunt was started by a incel monk (that was so sexist that even the early modern Catholic Church is saying calm down) makes too munch sense.
"A genre of erotica I now regrettably know exists"
The internet in a nutshell, right there.
I'm generally fine to be like "people got all sorts of wierd kinks, I'm fine to let them be"...it's when it moves to romanticizing f'ed up stuff that I start quickly having very strong objections.
♪WELCOME TO THE INTERNET!♪
@@dynamicworlds1 The best A/B/O stuff is the stuff where the characters know it's messed up and it's less "oh man how hot" and more "so our society is kinda fucked, huh?"
This means the knot
@@dynamicworlds1 Personally I'm just tired of writers (no I will not acknowledge such people as actual authors) who refuse to just research and write about kink so they douse it in werewolves or whatever and dismiss any false and potentially dangerous practices as a normal part of the culture of fictional group.
"Werewolves are objectively cooler and more interesting than vampires." Red really is never wrong.
Werewolves and Vampires are the Dwarves and Elves of Dark Fantasy respectively, which is enough in my book why Werewolves are better.
It just depends on what kind of werewolf/vampire you're talking about Dracula literally counts as both so its a false dichotomy.
@@kingpiye7060 Dracula is firmly referred as a Vampire first and formost with a wide variety of shapeshifting while the Stereotypical werewolf is only restricted to their wolf form though.
Werewolves are definitely more interesting
Ain't that the truth
Oh, fun fact about the wolf hierarchy thing! Mom and dad will often be the leaders, it’s not always. Sometimes a sibling will take over, a child, or a lone wolf who managed to join a pre-existing pack. And sometimes wolves aside from the main leaders will have pups, though there’s a constantly changing chance if the pups are allowed to live or not. The fun thing about incredibly social, highly intelligent animals is that they very rarely follow a strict set of ‘laws’ and they’ll inevitably confuse scientists.
True and human influence causes many issues by restricting territory. More fights break out over competition and scarce game.
If they can, a lot of fights will end quickly with one group running away. But less room pushes them into more direct conflict. More competition to mate etc.
So what i'm hearing is that wolf packs are like human families, in that certain people believe they must follow strict rules, but really they can be formed in many ways that are equally valid.
@@Dronita42 yes. And scarcity more than anything causes excess violence.They can be very loving and affectionate otherwise.
This is why I want to write a story with a werewolf pack that is only about 50% werewolf, because the, like, four sets of Parents in the pack collectively foster a bunch of supernatural kids.
Knowing that Red learnt the existence of ABO from researching this video is honestly so funny
The Omegaverse strikes again!
@@brawler707 The true horror, poor Red did knot see it coming
@@ireallyneedtherapy1126 get out
good lord i did not expect this to be the first comment i saw
I feel like im missing some context... And i feel like thats a good thing...
my personal favorite werewolf trope is "very big scary looking wolf-person" who basically acts like a giant puppy
I agree but unfortunately this tropes also attracts F̵̙̈́ư̴̲̦̔r̵̩̾̇̃ȓ̵̳̼y̸͓̽̇͠s̷͔̦̈́̓͜
@@Azalea_rose and whats wrong with them, they are objectively good
@@dreams6864 It was just a joke I was friends with a furry and I dated someone who identified as a neko
@@Azalea_rose im pretty sure werewolves do that already
@@dreams6864
Debatable
Actually here in Colorado, there was a recent vote to reintroduce wolves here! And it passed!
Funny thing though, there were already wolves here. The vote was posturing as an attempt to get around the fact the the Department of Wildlife refused to admit they were here, because of a whole host of issues that brings.
Yes wolf conspiracy. On I myself wouldn't believe if I hadn't seen them myself.
I remember seeing that on the ballot and being SUPER CONFUSED cause I knew there were wolves here. That explains it
eh, makes sense to me. if they'd admitted to the fact without there being protections in place for solves, they'd be inundated with calls to go out and kill said wolves, and not just by ranchers and farmers who lose livestock. (even though more often than not it's actually coyotes who are the cause.) so denial made sense, especially if it meant they could direct the people who actual lost animals to attacks towards the correct problems in the process. acknowledge the wolves exist and the real problems would get swamped in fear mongering.
once protections are in palce though they can admit the wolves exist, and still do the job of fixing the real issues (coyotes and ranchers who don;t take proper precautions to protect their animals). though it does mean a bit more work to punish people who go out and shoot wolves.
What the hell is going on in Colorado?
WOLF CONSPIRACY LMAO
So basically:
"There are no wolves in Colorado."
*Wolf walks on by behind the speaker, everyone seeing it*
"Let's reintroduce wolves to not make us a liar."
I love that some Italians said “we’re werewolves, but good and christian” and a few centuries later, this inspires the band Powerwolf.
I also love that the “alpha male wolf” junk was actually just the wolf parents telling their kids, “stop fighting with your siblings, don’t make me come over there.”
As much as I adore your observation about wolf parents parenting their unruly kids, I am going to tell you that that's not how the mistake happened.
The Greek-letters, rule-by-force, testosterone-fuled model of Wolf packs wasn't developed by watching wolves in their natural habitats- it was the result of watching a bunch of random wolves taken into captivity and observing how they interact. So, you know, the wolves were operating on the same rules as inmates in a maximum-security prison.
The scientists weren't actually making a terribly inaccurate observation of the behavior they were seeing... but they were being a bit of dumbasses for thinking that the situation they were studying was applicable to all wolf behavior. And the fact that it translates so well as a model for a bunch of violent humans locked in an environment together with no escape or outside intervention says a lot about how similar we are to wolves, honestly.
This perception in science was only changed when they finally *did* start studying wolf behavior in the wild, observing wolf family units and realizing that none of it fit their old models. And so they re-wrote the models, reported their findings, and challenged the work that had come before in the light of new evidence. Like good scientists.
Lol
Is that why they're called Powerwolf?
"Certain NSFW qualities that form the backbone of an entire genre of erotica I regrettably now know exists."
Anyone who's been on the internet before: "First time?"
Praise the lord and pass the ... eyebleach?
How am I seeing you Everywhere!!?
Only one?
At least we know Red is thorough if she’s willing to read through a kink/fetish she’s (apparently?) made uncomfortable by. That takes dedication. (And therapy.)
Yup. I've been there. Didn't like what I saw.
There was a Celtic legend I learned about a “wolf man” thing that left fish for poor people in the night. Good wolf men rolemodels
Do you have a source? I want to read about it
Is that not "The Wulver"? Its a myth from Shetland iirc :)
I wonder if cuchulainn could turn into a Wolf (because... Hound of chulainn)
I feel like a specially in Ireland the Wolves are always treated as something to be destroyed by the English settlers but the Irish word for wolves actually mean son of the countryside which indicates a more positive condensation.
That's so nice 🥺
I like the idea that werewolves keep their mind after transformation, but the transformation burns so many calories that they're ravenously hungry afterwards and so recklessly look for food, even if they destroy a kitchen, etc. in the process, and that's how the mind-less story was started. After 2 transformations (back into human), they'd also be hungry, but the tiredness outweighs it by that point.
I kinda love that. Now I just wanna see a modern day werewolf tiredly going over to a pig farm, buy up a bunch of pigs, and the farmer just say "Same time next month?" to them. XD
"he stripped naked, peed on his clothes in a circle, turned into a wolf then ran off to go kill sheep"
Woah hang on, we aren't going to talk about that? Not.... not even a little?
My Latin professor was telling us "moderately spooky stories from ancient Rome" and that was one of them! It ended with the first dude being like, "so that guy was a werewolf? I am SO not having lunch with him ever again!"
@@elizakarnopp8921 I love how the takeaway is that they aren't going to eat lunch with him😭
@@TheCoffeeCrow "I won't have lunch with him! You can't make me!"
Can we just appreciate how adorable Red drew the wolves? I think we should.
Reminds me of the Warrior cats animatics, the eyes and solid body colours are very similar.
h e c k
Adorable art, fascinating information, funny jokes, and that amazing shade at 13:22 all with some nice singing at the end.
Red's doing awesome, as usual (and maybe a little above average, though with how high that standard is, that's always hard to judge)
@@typacsk heckin' adorable!
AGREED
“Werewolves are objectively cooler and more interesting than vampires”
FINALLY, I’M NOT ALONE!!!!
Ye. Werewolves are much cooler. I don't even like vampires
I find the wholesale themselves uninteresting. They're just killing machines. When I wrote St Martin's Moon I was much more interested in the people cursed to become wolves, and the people cursed to kill them.
Werewolves, not wholesale. Where the hell did that come from?
@@AuthorGuy1 autocorrection?
@@AuthorGuy1 i guess it just depends on personall opinion. I like werewolves and i doubt they are "just killing Machines" . I guess some PPL like them this way but i think its a boring way to look at werewolves. For me they are interesting Creatures that can fit to many types of stories
It’s really funny that the vampire trope of a coven more accurately depicted the wolf pack structure than actual wolf fiction tends to
Help! I can’t unsee the thumbnail as a werewolf taking a dramatic sip of wine under the full moon!
LOL that's awesome!
“AROOOOooomatic flavour with a lovely woody scent!”
Werewolves as astral projecting warriors of God was something I didn’t know I needed in my life
Me too. I think that's super cool.
I’m pretty sure that’s the plot of Blessed and Possessed
The crusade knows no bounds *awoooo*
Honestly “Our Monsters are different” can be a whole Trope Talk on its own. Especially “Our Vampires are different”. I find it fascinating how authors can change the characteristics of werewolves, vampires, witches, etc to fit whatever narrative and themes they are going for.
Monsters are just a narrative tool in literature, when it comes down to it... a lot of them are even metaphors, for better or for worse. To suit the metaphor, adaption is often necessary.
I would also love a trope talk about the mysterious stranger like Richard from hotline miami or Bill cipher from gravity falls also that one character with 3 different backstop from dc that I vant rambert his name
The phantom stranger it was the phantom stranger
So your basically saying trope subversion is a trope.
@@CleoPinto4317 yeah but most tropes work like that anyway and ending up creating its own unique tropes overall which could be really cool like the dinosaurs from jurassic Park influenced every dinosaur movie ever to the point that no one use any dinosaurs outside the jurassic Park one except one piece but one piece is just strange and fun like that and doing thier own thing with it instead of using the basic trope would be really interesting
I had an idea to write a story where werewolves are all interminably linked to Fenrir, and they are weak to silver because Fenrir is bound by a silver chain...until I remembered he's NOT he's bound by a chain of "impossible objects"
So… werewolves are harmed by women’s beards?
Which would make trans catgirls the deadliest enemies of werewolves. Someone make that into a Netflix series.
@@clarienne7583 catgirls vs wolfmen? sign me tf up!
Cats versus dogs! The game never ends!
@@clarienne7583 ... As long as it's set up to push the fanfics as far away from ABO as possible, I am EXTREMELY on board with this.
"insufficient Jesus, prepare for flogging" would be an excellent T-Shirt
"Werewolves are warriors of God who fight evil witches and demons."
Thank you, Red. I really needed yet another unfinished story plotline running naked through my mind screaming Write Me! Write Me!
I mean, isnt that the plot of van helsing?
Watch "Penny Dreadful" this is literally what the character Ethan, the resident werewolf, is.
Bare in mind this is horror show and none of our main characters are innocent.
Hell the main protagonist is a reincarnation of the mother of evil/the devils wife.
@@danybey4182 that sounds metal as hell, unfortunately I’m a big pussy
Used in Neil Gaiman's works! Also a very good Urban Supernatural idea, that there are bad werewolves but SOME ARE GOOD.
Let it be unfinished no longer, I have a story I'm writing
The Werewolf Myth in Brasil: Any boy that is born after 7 girls will be a werewolf (sometimes it's seven other boys), werewolfs cannot die of old age while cursed, so they trick young people to accept the curse by asking them to "accept the burden", the person accepts thinking it's an inheritance.
Werewolfs are also reclusive in human form, beign described as skinny, always looking ill and having hair coming out of their ears.
Werewolfs transform every friday of full-moon in a crossroad, and from midnight to dawn they have to run throught seven cemiteries to be able to became human again. They like the blood of un-baptized children.
That's incredibly fascinating. Why hasn't anyone written books about these kinds of werewolves?
And weirdly specific tbh, really seems like there’s a lot to analyse here
@@the24thcolossusjustchillin39 Every Brazilian mith is incredibly specific, always having a certain date and/or a number of times someting needs to be done to break free of a curse or a spell. It's very weird and very funny and the same time
tem muita variedade no lobisomem brasileiro mesmo, ja ouvi de elementos de porcou ou carneiro, de ter que correr sete igrejas, tem altas variedade amo
Same for Argentina and most South american countries i guess.
But in argentina if you have seven sons or seven doughters the seventh become a werwolf or a witch respectively. If you want to stop it, the kids has to become the godson of the president
"Moon drunk monster
Beautiful and strange
Howl you melancholy question
And tell me
Which you dread more
The echo or the answer"
-From Twitter
heavy metal my man 🤟
Actually that poem came from someone on Tumblr, and was stolen and posted on Twitter, with the same picture of the fridge magnets and everything, and the Twitter user taking credit from the other creator. Like pretty much every popular post on Twitter.
@@nkbujvytcygvujno6006
I didn't know! Do you know the source?
@@zarinaa1135 Unfortunately I have lost it. And we all know how impossible it is to find any old post on Tumblr, with its spaghetti code. You kind of have to rely on chance. But I thought it still deserved mentioning.
@@nkbujvytcygvujno6006 i swear iv seen that post on my dash, but after some google truns out it was orginaly a twitter post! I think it just also got really popular on tumblr so alot of people remember seeing it there insted lol
My favorite take on werewolves is from one of my favorite webcomics, aptly titled “How to Be a Werewolf”. It characterizes transformation as being in sync with your “wolf side” and having a strong pack bond assists with that. Characters who are mentally stable have an easy time changing from wolf to human or somewhere inbetween, but people with less stability or mental health problems have trouble, sometimes becoming more wolfy involuntarily, or having trouble transforming at all. It’s a really cool take on the wolf transformation.
I love this. Definitely reading this and the story Red mentioned about King Arthur's werewolf friend.
Thanks a bunch. I get the best reading recomendations on this channel's comment section.
Me: “It’s going to be about werewolf folklore, it’s not going to be scary-“
Red at 1:28 “Omegaverse is a thing that exists”
Also me: *ghastly scream of horror as the memories resurface*
Werewolves aren’t scary. The deparvity of the human mind is.
The symptoms of a werewolf sound a lot like the symptoms of rabies. The whole extreme thirst, fatigue,, drooling, aggressively attacking people while behaving like an animal and growling, the fact you become a werewolf in most legends and accounts by being bit by a werewolf, that just screams rabies to me. Sometimes rabies victims are afraid of water but not always, that symptom isn't even listed under the seven symptoms of rabies. I wonder if cases of rabies were actually the origin of werewolves. And wolves themselves can and do carry rabies but healthy wolves for the most part totally avoid humans but lived in very close proximity to humans and livestock back then (there were a much much larger amount of wolves because there wasn't as much development back then so naturally there were more wolves with rabies). A wolf with rabies would have no fear of humans it would just stand there and drool and then attack and bite if not kill the humans. So to onlookers and witnesses all they would see is a wolf not acting like a normal wolf, who stared down the human with no fear and then bites someone then the bitten begins acting strangely exhibiting a lot of the symptoms the Wolf was. It would seem to them a clear case of lycanthropy. Rabies definitely existed back then but they didn't know it existed so cases of rabies would naturally be categorized as cases of lycanthropy. Change my mind.
@@WhitneyDahlin wait this actually makes sense..why didn't I think if this before
Always has been.
Humans are the real monsters
the terror of the beast has nothing on the terror of man.
I think my favorite one is Bigby Wolf from Fable, he's a reverse Werewolf, in that, he's actually the Big Bad Wolf from the fairy tales infected with Lycantrophy so he can live among humans, one could say, a Wolf Among Us
Is this a reference to video game I don’t get it
@@spachino7351 it’s a comic - it’s pretty cool subversion Of fairytales, but I’m not a fan of the amount of yelling all the characters do lol
@@spachino7351 "The Wolf Among Us" is a video game based on the comic and it's quite good. Cool a concept as it is though, I don't recommend the comic. I read all 150 issues or so and it gets wildly convoluted and hard to follow. Also the character of Jack (of Jack and the Beanstalk) is such a prick I can't go into it here for risk of saying ugly things that could get this post removed. Trust me, if you're interested play the game an/or read the first story arc of the comic and leave it there. The rest only goes downhill from there.
The Big Bad Wolf being the cop in the fairytale ghetto was a stroke of genius.
Red Riding Hood was being kinda sus though (I'm sorry! It had to happen!)
I only just realized that Eda from the Owl House is very similar to a werewolf, especially that humanity vs animalistic aspect mentioned at the end.
Oh yeah, never thought about it until now. She's like a Were-owl
Speaking of, I remember a gravity falls theory that said Grunkle Stan was a werewolf. The first episode we see him enter the portal room is on a full moon, the theory says he goes in there to prevent others from being hurt by his werewolf form (cuz people didn’t know it was a portal room at the time)
And she fights a fanboy of the biggest incel of the 15th centrys.
here in Brazil, we have a few Werewolf folk tales, i think the most famous is is that a man will turn into a Werewolf if he is the 7th son, where all his olders siblings are either all men or all women, and that he will first turn on his 13th birthday, and after that, he will turn into a werewolf every Friday (or Tuesday), and in order to turn back into a human he has to pass 7 crossroads, 7 churchs, 7 villages and 7 graveyards, if he couldnt make it he would stay a werewolf forever
“Today’s hot take, the witch hunts were bad actually”
How could you say something so controversial and yet so brave?
"only a witch would say that the witch hunts were bad. MuSt Be OnE tOo." -the mobs with less than 1 brain cell being lead by the brainless.
Witch hunts are Cancelled
@@billuraral1870 Yikes, Um sweaty, murdering women for having opinions or practicing medicine is like, very problematic. Ive found your address and posted it on twitter. You’re cancelled.
@@darealznoopdogg9300 bruh, don't cancel them like that. Do what Dr eggman did to shadow the hedgehog
The spookiest event of the season: Red learned what ABO is.
OH NO! SHE'S FOUND US HIDE!!!
I legit had to pause the video because I was laughing so hard XD
ah yes omegaverse
I didn’t know it by that name so when I looked up ABO I thought you were talking about the ABO blood grouping system and was very confused.
@@oliverfern8039 it's such a shame red didn't know about blood until recently
I find it absolutely beautiful that Red learned about the Omegaverse because she had to research exactly what was involved in certain parts of werewolve ideas :,)
My high school alma mater had St. Augustine as its patron Saint. I would have been so much more interested in his life story if I'd learned he wrote about werewolves.
"Werewolves are objectively more interesting than vampires"
YES, THANK YOU!
Absolutely!
The only exception for me is the world of darkness where both are just as interesting.
So... team Jacob? 😆
Absolutely
@@robbietheweirdo one is the littral sons of cain forever cerst whit infighting . the other have anger problem that all ways fuck them upp
"Werewolves that are warriors of God and fight demons in their dreams"
Wait so Powerwolf has legitimate mythological basis?
Pretty much.
I’m more surprised WtA has mythological basis
Yup.
@@silvertrimhill9844 same here
@@silvertrimhill9844 Werewolf the Apocalypse? Oh, yeah, White Wolf did their homework.
Werewolves being warriors of God that fight evil witches is basically just the plot of a Powerwolf song, seriously. Listen to Incense and Iron by Powerwolf.
Concerning the wolf extermination thing, one thing I thought interesting is I'd heard theories that this was partly responsible for the "buffalo as far as the eye can see" thing, that bison actually don't normally form herds THAT large, as it would rapidly annihilate the vegetation, and they were actually overpopulated for a certain period of time following the wolf extermination before bison hunting went too far and nearly eliminated them as well.
Another interesting point is that wolfs actually *do* kill humans, the extermination actually caused the avoid humans trait, and we are slowly seeing it go away as its not getting passed to the offspring much now.
What seems to be a common theme in contemporary werewolf fiction, and perhaps my personal favorite, is portraying the werewolf as a form of freedom. The transformation gives the person an escape from the pressures of society, a connection with nature that is often missed, and a powerful form of self-care. This does kinda mesh with modern perceptions of wolves, now that we know how goofy and wholesome they can be (while still being very much wild animals). We can all imagine how liberating it would feel to be as excited about life as a dog, after all.
I mean being turn into a good boy and the ability to mark your territory does sound pretty good
@@starmaker75 I mean you can technically mark your territory as a human, but there's that pesky law about public indecency or some bollocks that says humans aren't supposed to.
I read a pretty cool tumblr post once which cast the wolf side of a werewolf as the part of oneself which stubbornly continues to practice some level of self-love and self-preservation even if one is largely alienated from oneself. Something that is wild because it is unabashed and violent because it is under threat.
Bro all that shedding ain’t worth it at all, house is just filled with hair and it’s miserable. Ain’t dealing with that.
This aspect was wonderfully done in reverse in THE ONLY GOOD EPISODE in that X-Files reboot: Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster. Not a werewolf, but same concept.
My favorite use of a werewolf is in My Babysitter’s a Vampire when this one dude hypes up how terrifying and dangerous his wolf form is. Then when he actually turns, he turns into an adorable and gentle puppy! It’s so funny and I love it.
That show was a fever dream. They never did finish it either, the final got cut cuz so many parents went what the fuck at the satanic ritual scene
@@SymphonyZach I actually rewatched the entire series for spooky month and I'm still pissed they never finished it, they just left it on a huge cliff hanger
I rember that show from when I was younger I thought the vampire baby sitter was cute
I forgot about that episode(despite thinking about that show maybe every hour of every day), and knowing young me who would have been real excited to see a werewolf(them being my favorite myth/legend/cryptid? at the time) I was probably kinda pissed, and just went to watch the werewolf episode of Lost Tapes again.
That's a pretty funny twist, though.
I loooved that show. As a kid I would multiply my age by 1000. So like, if I was 8, I would be like, “I’m an 8000 year old vampire! Rawr!” My parents took advantage of this by telling me that beats were bloody hearts, so I would eat them. XD Low key smart.
I was showing this to my dad recently and he says your pronunciation was "not bad". He's a linguist. He congratulates you for trying.
Wolf children is by far my favorite werewolf ish story.
Wolfwalkers being my second.
Wolfwalkers is so good and it wasn’t until I watched this video that I realised that it’s basically just working off of the classic medieval werewolf system, which is pretty rad
“Lycaon founds Lycosura on Mt. Lycaeus, hosts the Lycaian games and gave Zeus the title Zeus Lycaios.” All I got out of that is “wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf wolf and wolf.” It’s like proto-Leman Russ.
Exactly what I was thinking.
Apollo and Leto agree. Since Apollo animal symbol is a wolf and Leto favorites form is a wolf. Also the tribe said to also worship Apollo too.
Wulver are mythical race of humanoid wolf people who believe that human was descendant from them so they help human with safe traveling, hunting, fishing and with protect them. So reverse werewolves.
I think you mean proto wolf wolf
Lion for life,
Well, I didn't expect this to turn into "The dude who wrote the Malleus Maleficarum was actually a more extreme version of the bad guy from the Hunchback of Notre Dame," but here we are.
"Helena moved on with her life. Kramer did not"
Ah, a tale as old as time...
Then you see a chapter titled, "Why women are more likely to believe in evil superstitions", watch women decorate their homes in Ouija Board every Halloween, and say, "Okay so the broken clock..."
Ouch.
@@bar-1studios Then you remember the dudes who believe "alpha males" are a thing and realize that no, really, it's a fifty fifty.
@@antonioscendrategattico2302 that Kramer was right in fifty percent of his book?
2:39 I actually read this story in my Latin class and I think the funniest part about is when the protagonist is retelling this story in a bar, he mentions the weirdest part being the clothes turning to stone, NOT THE DUDE WHO JUST STRAIGHT UP TURNS INTO A WOLF
My biggest takeaway from this is that Red totally looked up and was subsequently cursed with the knowledge of ABO/Omega-verse
Jimmy JB
Red struggling to pronounce Gaelic names? Weird NSFW trope implications? Christianity editing folklore? This video is already a classic
Gotta respect that instead of outright denying werewolves exist, Augustine just came up with a super rad theory about how they could
It makes sense, one of the best ways to make a new religion take in a given region is to say “hey, you know all those traditions and folklore you hold dear? Us too! They’re just a product of our god now! Anyways go to church.”
Lmao true
Legit a mass hysteria induced by the raving fantasies of a bestial man kind of tracks
@@alicethemad1613 I'd say in this case it was less a conscious attempt at Christianizing them and more something akin to "X thing obviously exists, but it's lore contradicts our beliefs, which are also true, therefore X must have been misunderstood"
I'm Irish and wathing Americans even trying to pronounce the word Ireland (let alone any of the language) itself gives me a special kind of joy.
“And that is why werewolves are objectively better than vampires”
Finally! Someone who agrees with me, werewolves are infinitely more interesting than vampires, vampires are so incredibly basic, it’s an undead human who drinks blood and turns into a bat, and some stories the vampire can turn others into vampires, and the description of werewolves would lead you to believe it’s the same thing just with a wolf instead of a bat, but there is so much more to werewolves than “man wolf bite people turn people into wolf man, kill with silver, howl at moon” they are soooooooo much cooler, and that’s why werewolves are my favorite monster
I'm writing a Yu-Gi-Oh vampire Au in an attempt to make one actually sfw, (most unfortunately aren't) and to make vampires more interesting. I came up with more lore for that than for my actual original story 😅
Exactly
Vampires are way cooler than werewolves, because they are humans forced to drink the blood of other humans, forced to live as a parasite to survive. There is something very compelling in the question of how do you deal with that. Do you reject your parasitic nature and strive to drink from sources that don’t harm people? Or do you embrace it and become a monster?
@@simoneidson21 Werewolves have the exact same thing, just replace the blood-drinking with hunting
"Is the wolf the man's shadow?"
*sobbing in LOZ: Twilight Princess*
DON’T REMIND ME-
*hears a distant laugh from the shadows*
That line gave me flashbacks to that game too
[flashbacks to that one puzzle in the Temple of Time that you do before getting access to switching between forms]
ʜᴇᴇ-ʏᴜᴘ
*Is being tortured* “Alright I confess…I use dark magic”
“You wicked fiend!”
“I also boned a succubus…”
“Oh. Good for you I suppose.”
High fives for all the lads!
If they're gonna kill you for shit you didn't do, you might as well make up boasts about it, I suppose.
"She said I'm way better than you."
"That dirty little- err, I mean, liar."
Not told in the story: he said the succubus was the torturer’s mother. Everyone then clapped as he dropped the mic. True story.
@@koji8123 This is the classic tale I want to see used for a movie.
Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright. The way you walk was thorny through no fault of your own, but as the rain enters the soil the river enters the sea, so tears run to a predestined end.
I understood that reference.
I love how Red got an email from a Werewolf scholar. Which I wish I knew was something I could’ve done.
I personally think the "Warrior of God fighting Demons" would make an interesting story, where everyone presumes the feral dangerous wolf thing, but it turns out that the werewolves are actually keeping worse things at bay, and killing them really disturbed the ecosystem. Would make for a nice allegory.
...am I hearing that it would be great to basically make werewolf story about people fearing what they don't understand and using them as a giant metaphor for the trophic cascade and the way trying to exterminate wolves royally screwed up the environment in those areas for years to come?
If so, you're right.
@@margaretgibbs6673 yeah, pretty much, except with werewolves keeping awful daemonic forces at bay, and ungrateful townsfolk killing them anyway
@@connormclernon26 please take my money
@@margaretgibbs6673 so thoughts:
1. Werewolves are still fully sapient when transformed
2. Can go from more fur on body, to midway between wolf and human, and full wolf
3. 5 fold strength and speed, as well as heightened senses
4. They can sense that which comes from Hell
5. They are an Order dedicated to preventing Hell from rising and doing harm to the people of Earth
6. People forgot about them over time, and the 1400’s began a series of pogroms against them
7. There’s a great deal of secrecy
8. Areas where the werewolves have been driven out tend to see a lot of demonic forces arising
9. By modern day, most governments are aware of Werewolves, and allow them to do their jobs
10. Despite this, people still fear and hate them
So, Werewolf: The Apocalypse?
"Insufficient Jesus. Prepare for flogging."
That got a good laugh out of me.
I saw the clips of Wolfwalkers and thought "That looks like Song of the Sea." Sure enough, it's by the same director. I really like his "Irish folklore" series - the art is beautiful and the stories well written. I need to watch them again.
Okay, but there is at least one important werewolf-like story in Norse mythology! Namely, Wali (or Vali?) and Narfi, sons of Loki, and the myth of Loki's binding. Kvasir turns Wali into a wolf in an uncontrollable rage, which kills Narfi, his brother, and then disappears never to be seen again (and then they use Narfi's guts to tie Loki to the stones). It's a magical transformation caused by someone else, no control over himself, no apparent way to turn back.
“Insufficient Jesus, prepare for flogging”
I look forward to using this line at my next kink party
You what.
Gotta be dressed as a nun and/or friar. Or at least be holding a cross.
Well THAT took a turn
old catholic school essay critique
ok then...
"Werewolves are objectively better than vampires."
You're god damn right
I’ve been saying this since FOREVER
In some ways, that's true; they can (probably) eat garlic without deadly allergic reactions. 😀
Hell yeh
Hear here!
Truer truth never truthed.
Bisclavret is honestly so funny. Because this king literally did the "I'll let him stay, because he looks very polite" meme
I almost choked laughing at the “separate the art from the artist part”
Never thought my takeaway from this would be that
A) The Malleus Maleficarum is basically like that study about vaccines causing autism, in that anyone with any expertise knew it was bunk, and dismissed it, also knowing that the guy who wrote it was terrible and not to be taken seriously, only for it to be picked up by significantly less learned people and propelled into historical relevancy through sheer ignorance.
And
B) The Goosebumps book "Werewolf Skin" actually has a mythological precedent.
I see you also watch hbomberguy
Haha , ye it treally good, and shockingly much involving child abuse (and death?!) in the study.
@@liam2745 Believe it or not, some people get their information from places other than pop culture internet essays
@@cam4636 by commie lowlifes
@@cam4636 really? where else is there?
"and certain NSFW qualities that form the backbone of an entire genre of erotica I regrettably now know exists."
Me, a fanfic reader: Ah, yes, another one has fallen down the hole.
Many find it, but only the truly doomed get trapped within it.
Each day I thank ao3's "exclude tag" feature for letting me stay as unaware about this as possible
@@symmetrymilton4542 It's too late for me, I'm already receiving verification emails from _Bad Dragon_
I literally laughed as hard as I have ever done when she said that, then my parents were looking at me weird. I just had to say, "it's a really niche joke," don't worry about.
Also UwU
@@sasaki999pro See, I don't know what that is. I didn't get trapped in the ABO realm. I accidentally bumped into the TF community. Sicker bastards I've never met.
Just found this out and got excited to share this here: The Epic of Gilgamesh also has an example of an early werewolf. In tablet 6, where Gilgamesh is outlining the fates of all of Ishtar's previous lovers, he says that she once loved a shepherd (or shepherds in general?) but later turned them into a wolf, who got chased away by his own hired hands (edit: and dogs).
Re-watching this I had a morbid thought. Did the publishing of the malleus maleficarum have any consequences for Helena, Kramer's initial unhealthy fixation, or did she thankfully dodge that particular Bible shaped bullet? I hate to think he finally got what he wanted in the end.
I don't see anything online regarding what happened to Helena after the book was made. Hopefully she lived a long (at least for the time) prosperous life without any more toxic assholes trying to ruin her life.
Vampires aren't uncool, they just are completley oversaturated with either paranormal romance or evil castle owners. Werewolves are also featured in those situations, but less so.
yeah because what not like other girls high school emo chick needs a rugged homeless wolfman boyfriend when she can have a very wealthy and immortal* boyfriend that can easily be killed with sunlight
Vampires are basically goth zombies, lol
yes this
also can we get more reverseals of the vampire and werewolf dynamics? wheres all the fancy suave rich werewolves? wheres all the unhinged messy criptid(tm) trash vampires?
Sometimes they can be both Paranormal Romantics AND Evil Castle Owners, like Dracula in the Castlevania Anime
Not everythink is bad about them. Some vampire romance storyes are realy beautiful.
God: "Are you saying I couldn't make a werewolf?"
Augustine: "No, that would be heresy. But I AM saying it would be dumb."
Me: "I like this guy."
He and St. Thomas Aquinas are Doctors of the Church, that's a good portion of their job
If god made werewolves real, we are doomed.
@@razi_man why would we be doomed?
I know it's a bad movie, but Van Helsing still has by far my favourite werewolf design.
My sister and I love Wolf Walkers so much we got matching tattoos of the wolf symbol that shows when they wake up!
Speaking of Dracula... remember how you said you originally had a summary that preserved the way the book was written, but that was 30 minutes long so you canned it?
Well, I'd like to think that 30 minute vids aren't so daunting to you now. I'd just... still really like to see that summary.
I too would listen to Red talk about Dracula for 30 minutes.
I think the art and editing is more the issue
porobaly saving it 4next year
Tbh I read it because of her videos, and it’s really good but the end kinda drags so like idk
Red has gone on record saying that if she begins redoing her old videos, she’ll end up stuck in an artist loop, something many beginner web artists get stuck in. So sadly, we won’t be getting that 30 minute summary of Dracula. Sorry
One of the interesting things to note about the whole "silver bullet" thing is that, while functionally they're less accurate and slower than normal bullets, silver bullets actually penetrate deeper than lead bullets, especially at a short range. So maybe the lone ranger was onto something.
My fox boi literally uses .50cal with uranium coating at some point
You would think that with the amount of human-animal and animal-animal hybrids running around in ancient times, a wolf man seems like something that would exist…
I mean just look at ancient Egypt for example, it would have been weird for them to NOT believe in a animal/human hybrid
Funnily enough the Netflix show The Order, a show about an occult secret society, uses the Werewolves as Noble Warriors trope with them hating black magic and killing anyone who practices it. They also pull from the Norse concept of a wolf coat. A werewolf is someone who bonds with a specific coat with its own power and strength. Not only that, being a werewolf actually makes your magic much stronger.
The duality really lends itself to the modern theme of "man is the monster." Basically the wolf half is of nature and it's the person that determines if a werewolf is good or evil.
We're werewolves, not swearwolves.
@@BigCheddar248 This is a *Christian* werewolf server.
It's no longer "There are two wolves inside you"
*There are two humans inside you*
The heavy duality and transformation aspects were well exploited in the movie Wolfwalkers. Rather than the monster within the story played it like the hero within. It was awsome.
@@giboi03 oh my...
I remember reading about werewolves a while back. The funniest bit of trivia, whether it is true or not, was that the Danish believed that the way to cure a werewolf was by scolding them.
"No! Bad Werewolf! Bad!"
@@simondUK *Swats werewolf with newspaper*
You leave me no choice, Rover. I am forced to use... the spray bottle!
One wonders how many other things could be fixed by a firm scolding from a Dane. I nominate Sandi Toksvig to start scolding things in an effort to find out.
Time to bring out the portable vacuum cleaner and the dog whistle!
One scary addition I've heard in the past (specifically in a weird tiny pamphlet-like thing that was available in my elementary school way back when, along with others for other kinds of baddies) suggested that even killing a werewolf wasn't much use, as all killing a werewolf did was turn them into vampires. Made even worse with the other pamphlet on vampires that insisted the only way to kill a vampire was to find him asleep, shove a stake through his heart and into the wood of his coffin so he couldn't move, stuff him mouth full of garlic, chop off his head, then burn the whole body, bones and all, down to fine ash while carefully watching for even the smallest insect crawling out of the fire and throwing them back in, just in case one of those bugs is the shapeshifted vampire. Good luck getting all that done by sunset.
My favourite werewolves are ones from Vampire the Masquerade- near-completely unkillable and highly territorial mountains of fur, muscles and claws that can easily kill a vampire, but aren't agressive beyond defending their territory.
The Garou are absolutely aggressive. That’s their entire deal, they are warriors of Gaia’s vengeance