Suppose you were a werewolf

[helgasdogs]

Hello, all. I have an hypothetical question for the forum.

Suppose you were a werewolf, cursed to changed form once every full moon and stalk and kill human prey. Knowing this, what would you do? Telling anyone is right out - no one would believe you. The curse may well be tricky enough, too, that you might “hold your breath” for a month just to paint yourself a liar before any people you’d convinced to watch you transform. Month after month, the bodies pile up, while you continue to live your life. Do you melt down your silver crucifix into a bullet and shoot yourself, or what?

 

[Rawb]

Have a priest perform an exorcism.

 

[Epsilon_Omega]

I would log on to CAF and ask in the Ask an Apologist forum After that, I would try to tie myself up or shoot myself I guess

 

[wjp984]

well if hypothetically werewolfs were somehow real and if they were still creatures with an immortal soul then consider the facts. If you are not in control of your werewolf form you basically can not sin and are no longer human so nothing you do could effect your salvation. In fact, the werewolf is hungry and I suppose higher up on the food chain than humans so eating a human is just obtaining food in the same way a human would hunt and kill an animal for food. In the human form suicide would never be the answer and it would be potentially casue for damnation so that is not an option. However, where there is one there must be two so perhaps the werewolf can find another moral companion who is also a werewolf and move to an isolated area in the wilderness where they can live a peaceful moral life and have abundant food in the werewolf form that hopefully would not involve humans though if it did there would be no sin.

 

[cpayne]

And thus, I think, the pressing issue of werewolf suicide is definitively resolved.

 

[cheddarsox]

This question is not as hypothetical as we might wish. Ask people with bi-polar disorder, anger issues, etc how they feel. I’ll bet it is often like this “werewolf”.

a very important issue.

 

[deb1]

Okay, I admit it, werewolves are my favorite monster. Did you know that the Romans has myths about werewolves?

IIf there were such things as werewolves, all you would have to do is make certain to transform in front of a security camera or in front of a crowd of armed policemen. Monkshood, also called wolfbane, is supposed to keep away werewolves. So, maybe you could put a few pots of the plant around all your home’s entryways.

As far as believing you, heck, there is a urbane legend about a werewolf in Wisconsin called the Beast of Bray road. Google it. There are people that believe in it, so I doubt that you would find difficulty in finding believers.

I would think that if there was such things as werewolves, most of what hollywood says about them couldn’t be true. Wolves are not loners. They hunt in packs. So werewolves would probably be pack animals. Also, why would your wolf form automatically not have some human instincts and knowledge about your loved ones? I’m not saying that you would have human rationale in your wolf form, but you might recognize your children or wife as part of your pack, even if they weren’t werewolves.

 

[cpayne]

Wouldn’t werewolves be an endangered species? There may be federal money here for someone.

Vice-President Cheney / Lon Chaney: THE FEDERAL CONNECTION. Also explains why Cheney shot that lawyer. He didn’t make a mistake; he was hungry.

 

[Sir_Knight]

Buy a cement storm shelter and install a heavy-duty bank-type door with a combination lock on the inside and lock yourself in for the nights with full moons. In werewolf form you will not retain your human memory and thus be unable to get out of the storm shelter. When turning back to human form in the morning, you’ll be able to dial the combination and get out until next time.

PS: I believe that in TRUE werewolf legend, the silver bullet needs to be blessed by a Catholic priest. At least, that’s what I remember from watching Dark Shadows back in the 1960’s unblessed silver bullets didn’t have any effect.

 

[water]

we watch too much movies this day.

 

[Cat]

All of these issues were dealt with on the old television show, “Dark Shadows.”

First Barnabas didn’t want to be a vampire.

Then Quentin came along, and he didn’t want to be a werewolf.

Barnabas turned to medical science and asked Dr. Julia Hoffman to research a “cure” for him. It almost worked, except she fell in love with her patient.

I didn’t follow the Quentin plot too closely, but I know he was always searching for a way to be free of the gypsy’s curse that had made him into a werewolf.

People, especially Christians, used to criticize this show (and still criticize it). But for a young teenager (me), all of these issues were very timely. HOW do you deal with “sin” in your life when you enjoy the sin, but know it’s wrong? That’s the question that Dark Shadows, specifically Barnabas and Quentin, tried to solve for five glorious years of good television. Very deep and I’m glad I was a teenager when it was on TV.

There’s TONS of Dark Shadows fan fiction, so if you would like to google and start reading about how Quentin the werewolf dealt with his “secret,” have fun. It’ll take you months to read through all of it!

 

[Mirdath]

Okay, I admit it, werewolves are my favorite monster. Did you know that the Romans has myths about werewolves?

Werewolf and other shapeshifter myths are common across the globe. Most of them have quite a bit in common.

Native American stories about skinwalkers are pretty neat though

 

[cpayne]

Nobody thinks were-toads are cool. We can’t even bite anything. No teeth.

 

[tee_eff_em]

All of these issues were dealt with on the old television show, “Dark Shadows.”

I didn’t follow the Quentin plot too closely, but I know he was always searching for a way to be free of the gypsy’s curse that had made him into a werewolf.

He was free of it for a number of generations between 1897 and 1967, thanks to someone having painted a portrait of him a la Dorien Gray. The portrait image would turn into a werewolf instead of Quentin himself. Either the portrait or the werewolfism also extended his life so he was forever young.

But then there was a fire in the east wing of Collinwood, and the portrait burned…

“Whaddaya mean, ‘misspent youth’?”,
tee

 

[Sir_Knight]

I remember there was some blond haired guy in the 20th century who was also a werewolf. Remember him sitting in a chair and giving a gun to another guy telling him to shoot the werewolf when he changed but since the bullets weren’t blessed, they didn’t stop the werewolf.

Anybody else remember that particular episode?

 

[wjp984]

Buy a cement storm shelter and install a heavy-duty bank-type door with a combination lock on the inside and lock yourself in for the nights with full moons. In werewolf form you will not retain your human memory and thus be unable to get out of the storm shelter. When turning back to human form in the morning, you’ll be able to dial the combination and get out until next time.

PS: I believe that in TRUE werewolf legend, the silver bullet needs to be blessed by a Catholic priest. At least, that’s what I remember from watching Dark Shadows back in the 1960’s unblessed silver bullets didn’t have any effect.

That is not any fun though. If I were a werewolf I would want to have some fun with it and act like a wolf and hunt. There is no sin in hunting for food. Though as I mentioned earlier I would try to be in an area that does not have humans on werewolf nights. I assume werewolfs can eat other things like deer and there are an abundance of deer everywhere in this country.

 

[tee_eff_em]

I remember there was some blond haired guy in the 20th century who was also a werewolf. Remember him sitting in a chair and giving a gun to another guy telling him to shoot the werewolf when he changed but since the bullets weren’t blessed, they didn’t stop the werewolf.

Anybody else remember that particular episode?

Probably Chris Jennings, a descendant of Quentin Collins, who inherited his lycanthropy. (Chris also tried the portrait trick, the 100-ish year old artist still living, but he had “lost the gift” and it didn’t work)

Count Petofi had also been a werewolf, but would not tell Quentin how he had cured himself.

tee

 

[deb1]

That is not any fun though. If I were a werewolf I would want to have some fun with it and act like a wolf and hunt. There is no sin in hunting for food. Though as I mentioned earlier I would try to be in an area that does not have humans on werewolf nights. I assume werewolfs can eat other things like deer and there are an abundance of deer everywhere in this country.

Wouldn’t hunting human prey be boring to a werewolf?

I still think that if there were werewolves, they would hunt in packs and have some knowledge of their human existence. So, they wouldn’t hunt humans.

Considering that wolves in the wild are family orienteded, I don’t think that a human spouse or children would be endangered by the werewolf dad.

Of course, the young man who keeps the werewolf daughter out past her curfew might be in for a surprise.

 

[Zooey]

Nobody thinks were-toads are cool. We can’t even bite anything. No teeth.

Murder on insects though…Maybe we should turn the were-toads loose on the gypsy moths. You’d gain respect overnight!!!

 

[Cat]

Did you know that there is a physical condition called “congenital erythropoetic porphyia?”

The symptoms are growth of facial hair, red eyes, and red teeth. The skin was affected badly by sunlight, so the victims of this condition avoided daylight.

I’m serious! This was one of the conditions that gave rise to the myth of the “werewolf.”

I also want to mention that certain criminals in history e.g., Peter Stumpf, were called “werewolves” because of the ferocity of their crimes, which sometimes involved cannabilism of human body parts. I hope that everyone reading this realizes that we’re talking about Lon Chaney/Quentin Collins/Werewolf of London, etc. type werewolves (imaginary!), not these horrible criminals (real).