Curse of the Werewolf: Three Lycanthropic Tales

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Find showtimes, watch trailers, browse photos, track your Watchlist and rate your favorite movies and TV shows on your phone or tablet! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Full Cast and Crew. Our Favorite Trailers of the Week. Sophia the bells; but he heard the ringing in Kiev. According to Armenian lore, there are women who, in consequence of deadly sins, are condemned to spend seven years in wolf form.

In a typical account, a condemned woman is visited by a wolfskin-toting spirit, who orders her to wear the skin, which causes her to acquire frightful cravings for human flesh soon after. She wanders only at night, with doors and locks springing open at her approach. When morning arrives, she reverts to human form and removes her wolfskin.

The transformation is generally said to be involuntary, but there are alternate versions involving voluntary metamorphosis, where the women can transform at will. On the Caribbean island of Trinidad, there is a common belief that a creature called a lagahoo exists.

It is described as a male shape-shifter, and is often spotted in the villages.

There were numerous reports of werewolf attacks—and consequent court trials—in sixteenth century France. In some of the cases there was clear evidence against the accused of murder and cannibalism, but none of association with wolves; in other cases people have been extremly terrified by such creatures, such as that of Gilles Garnier in Dole in , there was clear evidence against some wolf but none against the accused.

Some French werewolf lore is based on documented events caused by the full moon.

From the years to , an unknown entity killed upwards of 80 men, women, and children. The creature was described as a giant wolf by the sole survivor of the attacks, which ceased after several wolves were killed in the area. Olaus Magnus says that the Livonian werewolves were initiated by draining a cup of specially prepared beer and repeating a set formula. Ralston in his Songs of the Russian People gives the form of incantation still familiar in Russia.

According to Russian lore, a child born on December 24 shall be a werewolf. Folklore and literature also depict that a werewolf can be spawned from two werewolf parents.

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In Galician, Portuguese, and Brazilian folklore, it is the seventh of the sons but sometimes the seventh child, a boy, after a line of six daughters who becomes a werewolf Lobisomem. A law decreed that the President of Argentina is the official godfather of every seventh son. Thus, the State gives a seventh son one gold medal in his baptism and a scholarship until his twenty first year.

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This effectively ended the abandonments, but there still persists a tradition in which the President godfathers seventh sons. The power of transforming others into wild beasts was attributed not only to malignant sorcerers, but to Christian saints as well. Unknown to Konrad at the time, the paw was from a werewolf, its power to pass on the curse still dormant within the severed limb.

On the next full moon, Konrad transformed into a deranged werewolf, becoming one of the very beasts that his family hunted for generations. Still addicted to various drugs, but now with the power and rage of a feral beast inside him, Sabre destroyed most of his own castle, driving his servants away and isolating himself within the half-ruined estate. On returning to human form, Konrad discovered that any hope of a cure had been obliterated by his own fits of rage and destruction.

This drove him further and further into heavy opiate use, fits of rage, and madness. He became more wolf than man. As the rumors of a dark creature spread beyond the isolated villages near his estate, Ultratech took notice.