What does it take to become a werewolf?

Question

I have found only one way to increase my athletic ability that doesn't involve steroids. I need help here. Genetic engineering is to risky and expensive. Same with plastic surgery.

Answer 1

A vivid imagination with a touch of psychosis.

Answer 2

The only way to truly become a werewolf is to be infected by another. You have to seek them out and pretty much be attacked by one. There isnt a kept vaccine that you could give yourself.

Answer 3

simple.
step 1: go into the woods
step 2: find a werewolf by calling it.
step 3: let it bite you.
step 4: find a tree and go hit your head against it.
step 5: repeat.

Answer 4

well duh.
to become a werewolf you have to BE a werewolf.
shave your dog (or cat if you prefer) glue the fur to yourself.
then give up all other food besides red meat and run away to the forest.
easy as pie

you'll be a regular tarzan....er..i mean werewolf.

Answer 5

Shape-shifters of legend were actually people who learned how to shape their etherial body into different forms and send it out, like astral projection but with the ectoplasmic goo that we all have inside us. Sorry, but you will never be able to change your physical shape.

Answer 6

Get a dog and make it sniff for werewolves that look like humans and then get the people that smell like werewolves and ask them to bite you.

Answer 7

An absolutely marvelous imagination.

Answer 8

You have to date someone extremely hairy for at least one month.

Answer 9

Here's a bunch. Hope this helps.

Curse
Sometimes, the condition of werewolf is the result of a spell cast by a magician (St. Patrick of Ireland changed Veretius, King of Wales, into a wolf).

Black magic and witchcraft
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.

Livonians said witches routinely transformed themselves into wolves by passing through a certain magic pool, another instance of baptismal rebirth in animal form.

In South America it is believed that certain sorcerers and witches know how to transform themselves into animal guise such as serpents, leopards, panthers, jackals, bears, coyotes, owls, foxes and other feared creatures. They will do this to do evil to or kill theirs enemy usually by drinking their the blood.



Pact with the devil
In other cases the transformation was supposed to be accomplished by Satanic agency voluntarily submitted to, and that for the most loathsome ends, in particular for the gratification of a craving for human flesh.

"The werwolves," writes Richard Verstegan (Restitution of Decayed Intelligence, 1628), "are certayne sorcerers, who having annoynted their bodies with an oyntment which they make by the instinct of the devil, and putting on a certayne inchaunted girdle, doe not onely unto the view of others seeme as wolves, but to their owne thinking have both the shape and nature of wolves, so long as they weare the said girdle. And they do dispose themselves as very wolves, in wourrying and killing, and most of humane creatures."

Such were the views about lycanthropy current throughout the continent of Europe when Verstegan wrote. The ointments and salves in question may have contained hallucinogenic agents.

It is said that humans who enter into a pact with the Devil himself do so out of desperation and often, in an effort to seek revenge for the death of a loved one. In popular European superstition, the Devil is said to appear in the form of a coachman whose carriage is drawn by black steeds. The Devil offers a potion that provides the strength needed to carry out the revenge, in exchange for the person's soul. The potion is often in the form of a vial, the contents of which are applied to the human skin under the light of a full moon. The transformation into a werewolf will then begin immediately and the human has been completely turned into a werewolf forever.

In the Balcanic Peninsula grows a flower that, people say, if eaten, transforms the eater into a werewolf. Lycanthropous flowers possess properties peculiar to themselves which are only discernible to those who are well acquainted with them.

Their scent is described as faint and subtly suggestive of death, whilst their sap is rather offensively white and sticky.

In appearance they are usually white and yellow marsh flower. They have to be plucked and wornafter at sunset when the moon is full.

Becoming a werewolf simply by being bitten by another werewolf as a form of contagion is common in modern fiction, but rare in legend, in which werewolf attacks seldom left the victim alive to transform.

It is not always clear in films whether the bite of the werewolf infects the victim with some disease, or whether the person bitten must first be under some sort of curse. The source of this confusion is easy to understand. Some even state that the consumption of food prepared by a lycanthrope is enough to carry the infection.

To the old folk tale of a god's curse, the modern disease of rabies was added. A person bitten by a mad dog or other animal over time becomes mad, and begins to behave like a beast. Traditionally, all madness falls under the domain of the moon. In movies, the bite of a werewolf acts in a very similar way to the bite of a mad dog.

A.Wuttke: "Der Deutsche Volks und Aberglaube der Gegenwart" (1925)

"People (men, women, even boys) change, mostly just for several hours, into wolves by wearing a wolfbelt on the naked body (sometimes also on clothes). [this belt is made of] wolf's leather or human skin, especially the skin of a hanged man, often adorned with the zodiac, and with seven tongues on the buckle [which must be put] into the ninth hole; if they want to return to their human form, they open the buckle."

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.

This belief was so extended in Northern Argentina (where it is called the "lobizon"), that seventh sons were abandoned, ceded in adoption or killed.

A law from 1920 decreed that the President of Argentina is the godfather of every seventh son. Thus, the State gives him a gold medal in his baptism and a scholarship until his 21st year. This ended the abandonments, but it is still traditional that the President godfathers seventh sons.

Other supersitions on Ways to Become a Werewolf


Being a child conceived under a new moon

Being born on a full moon friday (Italy)

Being born on the winter solstice or Christmas Eve (Italy)

Being the elder son of priest

Being the 7th of 7 consecutive (Germany).



Drinking water out of the footprint of a savage wolf (Balkans)

Drinking downstream from wolves or from where a wolf pack has drunk

Drinking from haunted streams or pools (in the Harz Mountains in Germany)

Eating the brains or flesh of a wild wolf

Having tasted human flesh.

Getting bitten by a werewolf

Having sex with a werewolf and survive



Wearing the enchanted skin of a dead wolf or werewolf.

Plucking or wearing or smelling the lycanthropic flower (Balkans)

Wearing a belt made of the skin of a executed criminal



Sleeping outdoors at night on Friday while the light of the full moon shines in your face (Italy)

Not going to confession for 10 years

Being bloodily murdered on a full moon

Answer 10

bitten by a wolf, then wait for a full moon ofcourse!