After years of research I felt as though the mythology around Wolfbane had been lost . . . with exception for the movie’s hint that the plant could heal a werewolf . . . that is, I thought the stories were lost (until now).
A book I’m reading tells more about Wolfbane but before I go into that, I found it interesting to realize that one can become a werewolf VOLUNTARILY (not just by being raped-or bitten by a fang-wielding nut-job, or otherwise having the sins of your fathers contaminate your family gene pool). To become a werewolf, intentionally, you merely need to do one of the following:
- Eat meat killed by a wolf (such as that of a lesser wolf or sheep)
- Drink from a water source where werewolves have first imbibed
- Eat a werewolf’s brain (proving this is a dog-eat-dog sort of world)
- Ritualistically eat human flesh (be warned, however. Notorious cannibals like serial killers Albert Fish, Andrei Chikatilo, Edward Gein and Jeffrey Dahmer all earned a death sentence and as far as the records show – they never had a chance to shape-shift!)
- WEARING OR SMELLING THE WOLFBANE PLANT!
Wolfbane supposedly cures WEREWOLFdom when it is consumed PRIOR to the first full moon, after first being bitten/turned. Once you have actually shape-shifted into that ravenous beast, however (e.g. w/the moon’s pregnant cycle) the plant remedy proves ineffective. {Dang it.}
Once you make your first werewolf kill, you are forever cursed or blessed (depending on how you look at it) to roam the earth feeling very powerful until some sick perverts from an animal testing lab capture you to perform weird DNA probing into your hairy frame.
The book supplying all this fascinating folklore? A Witch’s Guide To Ghosts and the Supernatural, by Gerina Dunwich. (I highly recommend it.)
P.S. Wolfbane is also known as aconite, monkshood, wolfsbane, leopard's bane, women's bane, Devil's helmet and blue rocket.
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9 comments:
I haven't heard any of those things. But I haven't studied werewolves at all. Pretty flower though..
I'd heard of wolfbane before, but werewolves have always scared me so I stopped watching those movies.
Well, along with all of that...it's also a very gorgeous flower.
So does this mean that Shaun Ellis-Nat. Geo's Man Among Wolves could be a bonafide warewolf?
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Um,
the life of a werewolf seems a little bit tragic to me buddy...
Neat post however. It makes a lot more sense to go the plant route I must confess.
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Bobby
Greeneyes67 ~ Ah but lore does fascinate, doth it not?
BecomingKate ~ He he. I LOVE facing what scares me; hence my career.
Hibiscus Moon ~ Yes. Yes it is (gorgeous).
Raphnix ~ Why, most certainly!
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Fijufic ~ Like I said: "depending on how you look at it." :D
Damn it! I shifted with the LAST Full moon, so I suppose it is all but too late for me... I grew all that wolfbane for NOTHING!!~!!! lol
I heart werewolves and wolfbane.
Yay. {See why we read each other's blog?} :D
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