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What you've encountered is not so much a cliche with werewolves as a cliche with Hollywood in its entirity. Their lead characters are almost invariably a fixed archetype of "attractive," which means being aged in the early twenties and being physically fit--in women, even underweight. No o...

Nazi noise machines: The feraliminal lycanthropizer is an actual product of German research during the WWII era; it's a device that emits a loud hum intermixed with a chirping sound, which has a subliminal effect to those hearing it. After about fifteen minutes, the listener starts to feel giddy and...

You can't acquire lycanthropy with a simple hand-shake. It can only be spread by sexual intercourse, the use of contaminated needles, from mother to child, or from the bite of an infected individual... I'm sure there would be the urban legend of the person getting lycanthropy from a mosquito bite or...

Good point about the fiscal vs. social conservatives. I can see the Republican party have a reputation for opposing lycanthropic rights only to have a lycanthropic Secretary of State as part of the Chaney Administration. (Besides, the name Chaney is name recognition among the therian community!)

I have to be careful not to be too preachy in my own works, because I know how off-putting discussion of religion can be if you hit a nerve on the wrong side of someone's personal fence. That said, I do tend to bash fanaticism and Fundamentalist insistance on taking literally the specific symbols an...

I've explored the political ramifications; it would basically redefine humanity and drive a wedge into the current notions that seperate humans from other animals. It would be a big step forward for animal rights in the long run. But, in the mean time, it would cause tremendous chaos throughout soci...

On ripping and shredding clothing: If someone is a lycanthrope already and knows what one is, and furthermore knows when shapeshifts are going to come or can shift at will, then it follows that one would dress accordingly. A werewolf who expects to shift into a form where clothing can't fit anymore ...

I look forward to the point at which I can profess to be a card-carrying werewolf. However, since I'm a therian and I carry credit cards and an I.D., I could arguably say I am one now.

First, ditto on freedom. To me it's a symbol that the mundane world isn't neccessarily the real world. It's the thing that should not be (heavy guitar chords), but is. It's the unexplainable exceptions to our working theory of reality, that reminds us that humans know less than they think they do. T...

THE Linda Godfrey! We're not worthy! We're not worthy! I feel like a Trekkie drooling in front of the cast of Voyager. (For the record, Robert Picardo, the holographic Doctor, is The Howling's Eddie the Mangler.)

It's finished and ready to read. It's not formally published, but if you want to read it, the link is right there, in my signature:

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Actually, having the werewolf revert to human form is one of the occasions in which Hollywood does borrow from legend. There are several legends about people killing a wolf only to see the body of a local hermit or other creepy guy, or of hacking off a body part, only to have it revert to a dismembe...

Figarou:

whoa whoa. hold on. stop the bus!!

1st of all, shouldn't it be bare and not bear?

Nah. I thought my werewolves would give birth to bear cubs. Exactly how to work this out genetically, I haven't yet figured out, but I'm working on it.

The therian sub-thread brought up another interesting point, hinted at in the Jack Nicholson movie Wolf . Suppose it's only therians who can become literal shapeshifting werewolves (therians use the phrase "p-shifters") with the infectious bite? That's another ramification--only those who ...

Terastas: I think we should try to refrain from posting our own individual definitions. I'm writing a book too, but the definition of lycanthropy I'm using is a crapload different from anything the forum particpants have come up with... True, but my imagination is my best point of reference, since f...

WolfVanZandt: But Pleeeeeease (pleasepleasepleaseplease) no climbing the walls. Where do these movies get the idea that Werewolves are people who have benn bitten by a radioactive spider?!? They might be good at rock climbing techniques but they're not supersticky. I whole-heartedly agree! Underworl...

In theory, genetic engineering could do it. It's a matter either of turning off the genes that cause the tail to be reabsorbed, or turning on the genes that keep the tail around. Getting it to grow fur and look wolfy would be a bit trickier.

Also a therian here.

Werewolves chase the sheep they try to count.

So, you were sleeping on a Serta matress, and you didn't... whoa, what's going on... Agh!!!

My lycanthropes can feel frisky at any time, but I have considered a soft mating season--having heightened interest around February or March. Wolves, of course, have a genuinely rigid mating season around then, and that is when they're both willing and able to copulate to bear cubs. But, if dogs can...

I would also say to follow the human pattern, since it's the more limiting of the two. Unless the pregnant lycanthrope stayed in wolf form through the duration of the pregancy. But, a human could give birth to multiple puppies if werewolves were born as wolf pups with a two month gestation period. (...

I've kind of taken the "Hulk" theory for granted--the strong emotions forcing a shift concept. Yeah, I've used it in my works at least a little. A variant of course is arousal. That could make for some embarassing situations. If vampires can have their fangs pop out and their blood appetit...

Gray claws were mentioned before, but denounced as clashing with the color scheme. I have never had a close look at a real wolf's claws, but dogs have claws that are usually a dark, charcoal gray, though I've seen them in light tan if the surrounding fur color is similarly light. I'd vote for those ...

http://www.weird-wi.com/brayroad/index.htm There have been discussion of this thing on other sites, but Linda Godfrey's articles on the thing are the definitive source. Basically, in late December 1992, two seperate people saw something that resembled a wolf but could walk on its hind legs. One saw...

http://gaslight.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight/JGrenier.htm This French lycanthrope got off lucky; rather than the Uday Hussein tribute horrible torture and slow death, he was sentenced to life in a monestary. He was a younger boy, who was likely mentally retarded and schizophrenic, but his symbols are int...