So I wrote a short story this summer and somehow one of my main characters turned into a werewolf. Super weird.
I saw "The Howling" at too young of an age and was (I thought) scarred for life. But then...
I've been doing my own reading and research, but I want to know what everyone's favorite and least favorite werewolf facts are. What's alluring, what's gross, what's too weird to be believable?
So far in my world:
He's pretty terrifying in werewolf form, not just an absurdly large, yet cuddly wolf (i.e. Twilight)
It's genetic
It doesn't have to be a full moon
Aconite (wolfsbane) is not appealing at all. (I'm also going full plant geek here.)
So tell me all your best werewolf facts, have fun with it.
Thanks!
In some cultures, being a werewolf in life led to being a vampire after death (kind of an odd inversion of the vampires vs. werewolves conflict that is a trope unto itself)
The whole silver thing is a literary, or maybe even Hollywood, creation. Folkloric werewolves were just big evil wolves and could be hunted down like any other wild animal.
In folklore, werewolves were often sorcerors who transformed themselves into wolves to attack their neighbours and such. The idea of lycanthropy as a curse is another literary or cinematic trope (forget which).
I've always thought that if I ever do a werewolf story, I might actually do the sorceror turning themselves into a wolf thing. However, vampires have always been my thing moreso than werewolves.
Though Bram Stoker kind of fused the two by having Dracula turn into a wolf. (I think it was him. Can't think of any earlier sources.)
I ghost wrote an erotic warewolf short for a publisher in the US a few years back and my characters could change fully or in part at will. They could communicate telepathically through eye contact or touch, with fated pairs not limited by such proximity. Otherwise super strength and senses in both forms were also on the table. Wolfsbain and silver daggers were key to limiting their powers and killing them.
There was also a whole heap of cultural stuff in the world building, which made for a bit of fun to write.
That, and they love to fuck. Doggy style...
My latest story is a racy little piece about what happens when someone cute from work invites you over to watch Netflix and Chill. Chatterbox Blonde- Rumps Mystical Bartender
As a suggestion, have a read of the World of Darkness Werewolf series.
They have different kinds of myths you can loot and they have an interesting approach to what it's like to be a wolf.
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I'm also highly likely to have posted this from a phone so there may be typos or odd word changes, auto correct can be a pain.
I've been listening to my kinky pencil here's my current work
Silver, specifically sterling (900 or better). Amethyst(s). Mistletoe--plant, water in which mistletoe leaves have been boiled, or concentrated oil. Lavender (living plant). Tea roses or rose petals in specific colours.
An evil eye amulet (mati, nazar, mal de ocho), preferably several and preferably blue, on a sterling silver bracelet or necklace--depending on the culture, sterling silver may be replaced with high karat gold (the one I wear, a bracelet, is very antique, and is 19k gold). Also, hamsa or the Hand of Fatima, sometimes incorporating an evil eye amulet, pretty much the same as the evil eye, with different cultures believing the hamsa to have different protective powers, depending on a million different things, ranging from colour and composition to orientation and protective prayers written on the hamsa.
"Haint blue", a Southern U.S. thing, and sort of a catch-all protection on your house, against "lost souls" (ghosts), demons, evil spirits, werewolves, vampires, and pretty much anything else lurking in the thick of the dark.
Oh, and the Cross of Lorraine. I do not know what protective powers that particular version of the cross imbues to the wearer, but my grandmother wore a small one as a pendant when she and a hundred-odd other Canadian nurses were hastily attached to the British battalion tasked with the liberation of Bergen-Belsen. She believed that the Cross of Lorraine gave strength to the wearer and sort of acted as protective halo, or something similar. I have it now, and still carry it, on occasion (and most definitely during the past 18 months, give or take a few months).
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Lonely Werewolf Girl is the first of a trilogy by Scottish author Martin Miller about Kalix MacRinnalch, a laudanum-addicted, socially-anxious, anorexic, bipolar werewolf
My 200th story.. a young nurse gets down on her knees for an older man to make his day
