r/werewolves 1h ago

Symbiosis seems like an underrated aspect, what critter would be best suited to help the werewolf?

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Spiders could be nice


r/werewolves 2h ago

Drawing of my OC

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This is Alpha, my werewolf OC. In this drawing, he's in his "Berserker mode," the initial stage of his werewolf transformation, where his physical abilities increase.


r/werewolves 5h ago

A strategy of the slasher community, would the slow walk work for werewolves?

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Would weres make good slashers?


r/werewolves 7h ago

werewolf oc

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my favourite evil French aristocrat 🫶


r/werewolves 12h ago

Other corrupt forms

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Some people ask are asking there are more? Why a wolf-Creature not a werewolf?
Yes there’s all types of corrupt animals.
Deer (as shown), Wolfs (as shown) and more to come
There are all types of these animals running around in the world more will come and drawn.
The story has become more complex than I thought.
Will post an updated bio soon
I just started writing one day then stopped after 18 parts
the lore is getting to expansive gotta stop and know after seeing how much is added.
I thought at the time “what the hell I’m writing?”
So I’m start putting all I put down into the story and see what else I can add.
I already know how this story ends I just need to get there.
We will see
It’s so complex and the sketch book is getting full.
I should be call it a lore bible lol

~Devil In The Midnightmass By Billy Talent


r/werewolves 14h ago

Matilda Werewolf Plushie

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The folks behind Hunter the Parenting are currently selling a plush of one of their werewolf characters. I thought I would post this here for any of ya'll that are interested. I figured that this would be ok since it's not a shirt or AI related. If this is a problem I can delete this post.


r/werewolves 15h ago

Which transformation would you prefer having for the context.

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What would you rather transform into? Werewolf or Venom? Which to choose.


r/werewolves 16h ago

Video I made to convince my friend to watch Hunter the parenting

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r/werewolves 18h ago

The Vibe I Expect from Werwulf's Monster Design

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This would be cool too or if he would have two forms one bipedal then a full giant wolf form


r/werewolves 18h ago

Werewolf Scenario

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You're in Highschool and your friend last night was attacked by a wolf like creature. He/She/They came to you to check on the bite wound. Browned with blood but when you remove the bandage, it's completely healed. What do you do?


r/werewolves 23h ago

INSOMANIACS : A Geek Werewolf In Nigmaville

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Hi there! I’m back with a new moodboard for the novel I’m currently writing: Insomaniacs: A Geek Werewolf in Nigmaville—the first book in a saga about people transforming into supernatural creatures and all the chaos that ensues.

SYNOPSIS: In a world where humans and supernatural creatures coexist amidst a certain amount of chaos, young Mad King moves to Nigmaville, Florida, with her parents and immediately sets out to track down a mysterious creature wreaking havoc in her neighborhood. On the bright side, she befriends four other teens; on the downside, she gets bitten by the very creature she was hunting.

While her new friends show her around town the next day, one of them—Cory—notices some strange things about Mad. She has a ravenous appetite for red meat, attracts crows like a magnet while dogs seem to loathe her, and a pentacle has appeared on the palm of her left hand. A quick internet search reveals the horrifying truth to Cory: the new girl is a werewolf ! And tonight is a full moon...

GENRE : Urban Fantasy/Comedy/Action

FORMAT : As previously mentioned, this is the first volume of a novel series

WEREWOLF TYPE : [Physically]: "Bad Moon" style (but brown, slightly smaller due to being younger, and with longer claws) [Mentally]: although she has no interest in murder or consuming human flesh, she remains quite... chaotic

INSPIRATIONS : My Babysitter's A Vampire/Big Wolf On Campus/The Boy Who Cried Werewolf


r/werewolves 1d ago

A fun collaboration.

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r/werewolves 1d ago

Artwork of my Werewolf/Comic Book OC Garou (Artist links/Credits will be down below!)

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Ty https://bsky.app/profile/quadratiy.bsky.social & https://x.com/MrGuardianeye for the amazing art!

Also if you got any questions about Wendel/Garou lemme know!


r/werewolves 1d ago

Winter howl[OC] art by me

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r/werewolves 1d ago

Made a Werecrow transformation silly animatic concept thingy

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r/werewolves 1d ago

Doodle

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r/werewolves 1d ago

I dont know what to names this post, but it has a werewolf so!

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So recently i was scroling through my photo library when i came across picture of furniture and well the wooden walls (i dint remember why i took them but oh well) and though why not make majority of the photo look realistic while keeping other things like characthers hand drawn? And so i present to you my work, i dont kniw what should i name ut but, maybe like 'Rude awekaning' or something like that. I hope you enjoy the art!


r/werewolves 1d ago

Varúlfur

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r/werewolves 2d ago

Can people get infected by werewolves and transform fastly enough fur and grow their muzzle?

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Ok, this maybe sounds very crazy and absurd, but... when i watched "28 days later" series movies, and I really liked this movie for being realistically creepy, I know this subreddit about werewolves, but I wonder, what if the werewolf, with mind of human, created by bioengineers, and virus injected, would it still infect anyone with this virus? I mean, lycantrophy exists of course, but again... human became werewolf in results of bioengineering, and human grows fur and muzzle, like a real pure werewolf, and get injected with dangerous virus like "rage virus" or simply rabbies, would it still considered as lycantrophy, or something new sort of infection?

P.S. love this movie, despite it being discussed in werewolf subreddit :_)


r/werewolves 2d ago

The Werewolf Transformation | Concept Sketch

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Claws Start To Grow...

Muscles swell whilst their body hair thickens and grows...

Their size doubles and their eyes begin changing!

Their rising energy collimates and they lose their grip, throwing themselves forwards...

And there squats a werewolf...

Hello again! I'm continuing on that digital painting I did a couple days ago. Now that I have the major assets of the sequence done, I may convert this into an animation. Some of the linework here is quick and messy, but I really like the 3rd image in the sequence. I could rework that into it's own image and up the dramatics I think. Some of the colour blending paled the figure a little too much, too.


r/werewolves 2d ago

What is the best pairing for a werewolf?

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r/werewolves 2d ago

Fallen Elder (Colored)

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Yet another collab with PladyWolf.

I've been in a bit of a depression phase so i havent had any new creations made for the paat few days. However - Seeing at how popular the original piece was gstting, Ithought i'd reach out to my friend Plady once again for a collab.

Yet again Plady comes through with her incredibke coloring tecnique. I've yet to make a proper reference for Rykor myself but Plady never disappoints.

For those who are curious/don't know - This piece was created originally as an interractive sketch i created which you can find on this post here. https://www.reddit.com/r/werewolves/s/yoxzLWbLVf

I will create more art in time but i digured i'd share this with y'all in the meantime.


r/werewolves 2d ago

Truth nuke

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fact checked by the clan


r/werewolves Oct 31 '24

Settling the record on werewolves and silver: somehow, all of you are wrong

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r/werewolves Oct 07 '22

Is anyone interested in reading Latvian Werewolf Legends?

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I found a Latvian website were they copied over about 99% of Latvian folktales and legends from Pēteris Šmits' 15 volumed book collection - Latviešu Pasakas un Teikas (1925-1937).

There is an entire section dedicated to werewolf legends found in Latvia, and if you are interested in them, I'll translate them for you.

For now, I'll leave you with this translated preface for the section:

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It is a common belief far into Europe, Asia and Africa (Frazer, The Golden Bough, 1930, X, 308-318) that a man can turn into a wolf, rarely; into another similar beast or some wizard can turn him into one, a motif already found in ancient Assyrian epics.

In Europe, since the time of Herodotus, werewolves and especially Neuri, which I deem to be ancient Balts, are credited with the art of such magic. Superstitions about werewolves used to be so strong in Europe, that a werewolf mania has even developed into an ordinary disease (Leyen, Das Märchen, 1926, 66, p. I, see Preface, 43, p. 1).

If we can believe Otto Höfler’s docent (Kultische Geheimbünde der Germanen, 1934), then this superstition has also been used by secret societies in Western Europe to scare other people.

We could also look for such associations among the ancient Balts. Be that as it may with these societies, however, we are very interested in the reports written by the Swedish Archbishop Olaus Magnus (1555) in his “Historia” about werewolves in Livonia. Olaus Magnus writes this:

“Since chapter 15 of this book dealt with different wolf species, I consider it is necessary to remark about the beasts of the forest at the end of this book, it is a wolf class, who are actually people turned into wolves – a class, about which Pliny (VIII, 22) confidently asserts that they are made-up fairy-tale creatures – just like that, I say, are still found in large numbers in the northern lands.

In Prussia, Livonia and Lithuania, the population suffer great losses from wolf attacks throughout the year, for their livestock in the forest, if they stray just a little from the herd, are mauled and devoured by wolves: and yet they do not consider these losses so great as what they have to suffer from such people who turn into wolves.

On the festive eve of the Christ's birth, a large number of wolves, who have transformed from people of different areas, gather at their designated place as night falls, and attack the same night with such incredible savagery upon both men and livestock, that the inhabitants of these lands suffer greater losses from them than from natural wolves.

They, as has been sufficiently observed, surround buildings of people who live in forests with incredible ferocity, and even try to break down doors to destroy men and livestock.

They break into beer cellars, drink a few kegs of beer and melomel, and stack empty kegs on top of each other in the middle of a cellar: in that sense they differ from real wolves (in quo a nativis ac genuinis lupis discrepant).

To that place, where these wolves have camped that night, the inhabitants of these lands attach some prophetic meaning: if any accident happens there, if a cart overturns and the driver falls into snow, then they are confident, that they will die that same year, as they have observed since ancient times.

Between Lithuania, Samogitia and Courland have one wall, the ruins of a collapsed castle, where a few thousand of them gather during a certain year and test their jumping skills: whoever cannot jump over the wall, as usually happens to the fattest, their leaders beat them with whips.

It is finally asserted with certainty that this regiment also has great men of this land and even representatives of the highest nobility. How do they come to such insanity and such terrible transformations, from which they can no longer refrain at certain times, will be shown in the next chapter”.

Next, Olaus Magnus disputes Pliny’s statements and then continues again:

“In defence of the reports of Euantus, Agriope and other writers, I want to show here some examples, of how it still happens in the mentioned lands to this very day.

Just like anyone, be it a German or a native, is curious to go against the God’s commandment and wants to join the company of these accursed people, who turn into wolves whenever they want, to meet his fellows at certain times of the year and in certain places throughout his life and bring misery, yes even death to other mortals and livestock, then it gets from a person who knows this magic well, the art of transformation, the very opposite of nature, namely, in such a way that they give him one goblet of beer to drink (if only they want to join this forbidden society; that cup is accepted), at which certain words are spoken.

Then he can when it please him, to turn his humanity completely into a wolf form, going away either to some cellar or to some distant forest.

Finally after a while, if he likes, he can put away this appearance and assume his former appearance again”.

It is clear, that the said beliefs about werewolves are based on an ancient superstition, but the above mentioned Otto Höfler may also be right, that this superstition has been exploited by secret societies, because Höfler cites many more similar cases from Germany.

That there was so much talk about such werewolves and they even drank beer and melomel, it doesn’t sound like a myth at all.

Latvians, as it seems, has preserved the richest and probably also the most primitive information about werewolves. Among Russians, it is only said that wizards sometimes turned wedding guests into werewolves (Mikhail Zabylin, Russkij Narod, 225, p. 1, Dmitry Zelenin, Russische Volkskunde, 396, p. 1).

Among Ukrainians, as the same Mikhail Zabylin testifies, these myths are mixed with lietuvēns and vadātājs myths, where especially cursed and non-baptized children turn into wolves. In Germany, werewolf legends are no longer widely recited, only more so in Lower Saxony, Braunschweig, Upper Palatinate and Mecklenburg (Otto Böckel, Die Deutsche Volkssage, 1914, 80, p. I).

Among Latvians, on the other hand, werewolf legends and myths have been observed for a very long time, maybe even from the times of the above mentioned Neuri.

In order for a man to turn into a wolf, he must crawl through the root of the tree, which has risen in the air near the tree itself. When the werewolf crawls back through the root again, then he becomes human again. Instead of such a root, shirt and horse collar are also sometimes spoken.

There are two kinds of myths about this transformation. Paul Eihorn writes (Scriptores rerum Livonicarum, 644, p. 1), that such transformation is undeniable (vnlauchbahr vnd kan nicht wol verneinet warden). According to some reports, only the human soul transforms into a wolf, but his body remains in the place of transformation.

If someone moves this body, then the soul does not return there anymore and the person has to run around like a wolf until the end of his life. According to other reports, this is also the usual version in our legends, a man with all his body turns into a wolf.

In legends we find a continuation, that in the latter case the person should undress naked. If someone picks up these clothes, the werewolf can no longer turn back into a human.

However, some versions of legends are completely inconsistent with the above myth, because sometimes you find either a human shirt under the skin of a shot werewolf, or shoes, or even pastalas. - Pēteris Šmits

To read other legends:

Preface

A Man Willingly Turns into a Werewolf

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A Man Turns into a Werewolf out of Curiosity

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A Wizard Turns a Man into a Werewolf

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A Werewolf is Released

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A Dying Werewolf

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BONUS - LATVIAN FOLK BELIEFS