You say that like this "Drinking From a Wolfs PawPrint" thing is something I just made up myself. You have been here a long time ... you should know that is one of the most widely known myths about how one (supposedly) can BECOME a Werewolf. [Aside from being Bitten by one, that is]outwarddoodles wrote:Vuldari, about the water drinking thing: Oh! I get it now. That's actually really neat!
Whenever I find prints left from critters in my area, such as deer hooves or raccoon paws, I always lay my hand down on them. I suppose the basic feeling underneath both acts is the same.
Honestly though, I've heard the "Make a Plaster Cast" suggestion multiple times in the past whenever the subject came up, and I don't understand why ANYONE thinks that would be an equivalent substitute.
IF there were anything to the Myth, (for arguments sake), it would have to be one of two things:
1. There is some sort of mystical aura left behind by the animal which is retained in the water that pools in the depression or there is some otherworldly supernatural significance to the ritual act itself which binds the drinker to the animals form, (though only specifically Wolves, for some reason).
2. There is actually some PHYSICAL residue left behind in the tracks of the Animal (the Theoretical "Lycanthropic Contagion"), that is dissolved in the water in a form that can be absorbed by a human that drinks it, and is subsequently "infected" by it.
It does not seem even the LEAST bit logical to me that a Plaster cast made in the shape of the Print would retain ANY of the theoretical elements necessary to have any effect (biological residue, or supernatural aura)... if it were anything more than just an old Folk Tale, that is.
All it would be is a hunk of plaster molded in the shape of a Paw Print, and would be no more supernaturally significant than if one had just molded the print themself, in the artistic equivilant of a Wolf's paw. The shape of the container is not the key factor, IMHO.
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