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>I see another to add to the schedule too: The Howling IV at 8am central >time Friday Oct. 27, on the Sc-fi Channel. It's a pretty bad movie . . . Here are some reviews of it: >>[T]here is an amusing melting man effect which appears to have been inserted seemingly at random and is wholly unrelated t...

I found a website with some still images from "Mulberry Street." http://www.twitchfilm.net/pics/mulberry3.html http://www.twitchfilm.net/pics/mulberry6.html The same website also describes a New Zealand film with were-sheep: http://www.twitchfilm.net/archives/007491.html More accurately, t...

If you're interested in technical details about lupine skeletons,
check out the "Virtual Wolf Osteology" website at
http://www.uwyo.edu/RealLearning/wolfindex.html

Here are some more films featuring shapeshifters: Thursday, 10/26 on American Movie Classics "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man" - 1943 Larry Talbot seeks Dr. Frankenstein to relieve his lycanthropic tendencies. rvt Thursday, 10/26 on American Movie Classics "The Beast Must Die" - ...

Here are two reviews: >John Landis is mostly known as a comedy director. However, his revolutionary “An American Werewolf in London” was so groundbreaking and made such an impression on the horror industry that Landis will always be considered a master of the genre . . . Landis was brought on to the...

In one medieval legend, human <--> wolf shapeshifting is linked to clothing. In 1198, Marie de France, a Breton writer, composed "Bisclavret," also known as the "Lay of a Werewolf." In this tale, a shapeshifter/knight regains human form after his clothing is returned. The reverse...

Here are some websites on this theme: "The White Wolf Mystery" and "The Defiance Werewolf" http://www.geocities.com/saqatchr/page42.html Werewolf Sightings (in Ohio and other locations) http://www.hellhorror.com/article18.html "The Ohio Man Dog" http://paranormal.about....

What about a lunar eclipse?

When the full moon is exactly aligned with the earth, instead of getting a 100% full moon, the moon is eclipsed by the earth's shadow.

At other times when the moon is "full," it's never 100% illuminated because a sliver of it is still in shadow.

>Pablo's teeth grew back, and upon his first transformation, they PUSHED >his SILVER FILLINGS out of his mouth . . . I'm working on a photomorph right now and have quickly discovered that using visible teeth is a problem. As shown in the "Teeth, Fangs, and Jaws" section of http://www.wolfh...

So, maybe you could have someone turn into a minotaur when the moon enters Taurus?

Maybe someone should claim that the crescent moon is linked to a weredeer transformation? Deer activity, especially during the fall rut season, is widely believed to be linked to the lunar cycle. The "horns" of the crescent are also likened by some to deer antlers.

Here are three websites I found about Texas werewolves: 1) http://www.texasbigfoot.com/Bexar2.html "Witness described a 9 ft werewolf looking creature. He was seen devouring a 15 year old boy, son of a local rancher. The rancher was last seen chasing the monster into the woods. This is the basi...

>A werewolf with human like sweat glands Actually, there are three types of sweat glands: sebaceous (oil), apocrine (body odor), and eccrine (largely water) Humans have several million eccrine sweat glands, concentrated on the palms, armpits and soles of the feet. Ecrrine sweat glands are also scatt...

I got thirty-six this time . . .

I got nineteen of them quickly, but am finding it difficult to spot the rest.

How about this story?
"Reincarnated Dog Begs Forgiveness"
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340 ... 92,00.html

While it doesn't exactly mention a Jewish werewolf, this article does describe an Israeli belief in humans being reincarnated as dogs.

If a medieval legend described magical "silver," might it actually be describing quicksilver, commonly known today as mercury, instead of actual silver. As quicksilver is liquid at common temperatures, it has been regarded as supernatural for centuries. Medieval alchemists were obsessed wi...

Here's a website comparing the teeth of the extinct marsupial "wolf" to those of a placental wolf: http://www.naturalworlds.org/thylacine/skull/dentition_comparison.htm While human and wolf teeth resemble each other more closely than those of marsupials, there are still obvious differences...

How about the insect metamorphosis in the 1986 version of "The Fly" ?

The "Twilight Zone" episode you described, entitled "Monsters," actually involves werewolves and vampires. The old man actually is a vampire, not a normal human. Due to some sort of "allergic" reaction, the werewolf TF of the villagers is triggered by the presence of th...

I only know of one book featuring an obese shapeshifter. In Andrew Fox's 2003 novel, "Fat White Vampire Blues," a Louisiana vampire weighs over 450 pounds in his human form. When he turns into a bat or a wolf, he can barely move. Eventually, he overcomes this problem by shapeshifting into ...

Perhaps the question of height / posture should be tied to foot position. If a werewolf is digitigrade, would it be able to comfortably walk in a bipedal manner? For something as large as a human, aren't plantigrade feet better? Among carnivores, both bears and wolves fit into the "arctoid"...

The "hind legs" of dolphins are reduced to internal vestiges. As shown at http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jaap/Dolphfaq.htm, >The hind limbs have been lost, at least externally. Internally, there are some >rudiments of the pelvis and in some cases of the femur. The transformation ...

A werewolf movie using the "secret society" theme is currently in development. See http://www.wolfsbaynethemovie.com/ Here's a plot summary: >In 1590, the Diet of Augsburg ruled that gypsies were the spawn of Satan >and, therefore, had no rights whatsoever. The ruling allowed Christians to...