Werewolf/Talk

Does anyone know if any work has attempted to address why the werewolf is so vicious? Is it because of the pain of transformation, or the hunger (burns a lot of calories, maybe?) or both? Or is that just too ridiculous a question for most people to tackle? :-)

More relevant questions: if you become a werewolf by being bitten by a werewolf, what made the first one?

Why can werewolves only be killed with a silver bullet? How did people kill them in the centuries before guns? Silver arrows? And why silver?

Have any authors attempted to address these questions? Any folktales about them?

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I've heard that some werewolves are created as the result of a curse, and not necessarily from being bitten by another werewolf.

Also, doesn't anything silver work? Silver daggers? -- corvus13

My personal recommendation is to stay indoors and not go out during times of the full moon. I have so far been successful in avoiding all lycanthropes in this manner... sjc

AFAIK, all silver should word, even the touch causes skin burns. I can't remember the source, though. Also, in contrast to vampires, werewolves can enter your house, without being invited. For home safety, I always keep a herd of silverfish ;) --Magnus Manske

Too funny. About the article, how much "supposedly" do we want in here? Shouldn't it be obvious they're not real, or do we want to keep reminding people anyway? --KQ

I think the article is self-evident, and contains sufficient caveat with the introduction of the word mythology. sjc