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So, I tried a bit of a cleanup, according to what I'd expect from such an article - namely a comparison between different takes of werewolves. If the general public expects something else, well, I guess it can be changed back or edited. Unfortunately I'm not all that familiar with many of the books/movies etc, so it would be great if other people could add more information about the different kinds of werewolves. Anke 18:40, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
There are the werewolves that we know from movies, From Lawrence Talbot to Remus Lupin, that turn into an out of control killer every full moon. Then there are werewolves, like Constable Anugala from Discworld, that can transform at will, and control their wolf forms. I suggest that by chaning at will, these latter weres syphon off the power of the curse that would otherwise erupt at the full moon.
There is absolutely no reason to merge this article with the main Werewolf article. They are both quite substantially large, and by separating them out the people who wanted to list all the minute mostly nonnotable videogames and so forth now have more free reign to add what they like here. This merge notice was put here by an editor undergoing RfC for his abusive edits, including undoing changes I make on articles. I mentioned this as an example of the way things are done here to disprove his point elsewhere and he comes over and tries to undo all the work here. Unless there are objections I will remove the merge tag as clearly inappropriate within a day or so. DreamGuy 06:16, August 4, 2005 (UTC)
just becasue i have and RFC going ( and btw, LEARN TO SPELL) doenst mean that this article shouldnt be added to the end of the werewolfarticle, as the Vampire article will have Vampire Fiction added to the end thereof. please stop trying to weasel and mention my RFC everywhere to try to influcene opinion. Gabrielsimon 06:18, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
I agree with DreamGuy, this article should stay separate. It used to be part of Werewolf and there was constant conflict as people kept adding relatively trivial examples of modern werewolf fiction to what should be a very large-scale overview of the entirety of werewolfdom. Bryan 06:59, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
Wagner the Wehr-Wolf is being proofed by Distributed Proofreaders. When it gets released to Project Gutenberg it would be nice to create an article page for the book, with a link to the Gutenberg text.
I don't think the new Different Takes section (by the way, subheads are not in Titles caps, only the first letter gets capitalized) is an improvement over the way it used to be. It should just basically mention different versions with some examples, but promoting these mostly trivial examples into full subheads as if they were milestones in werewolf fiction or something just looks silly. Some other edits happened recently so I don't want to just revert, but I think it does need to be considerably different than how it is now. DreamGuy 01:39, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
I'm surprised there isn't a section talking about songs featuring or about werewolves - I can probably come up with almost a dozen off the top of my head.
I'm going to make that section now, please help out if you can. The Son Of Nothing 15:16, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
I've put this section in chronological order. Hopefully this will help separate modern pop hack-work from the older classics of the genre. Colin4C 12:47, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
The new intro, starting with folklore, seems awkward, vague and slightly off-topic. We've got a whole nother article dealing with folklore, why introduce it in a confusing manner here? I vote for a re-write of the intro, excluding folklore, and tightening up the writing so it doesn't sound as if it doesn't know what it is going on about. Mermaid from the Baltic Sea 17:50, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
I reverted this this modification:
'Earliest printed fiction' seems somewhat meaningless and inaccurate. It does not clarify any putative vagueness, but rather adds to it. 'The werewolf often being due to a demonic pact' is not good English. I guess the meaning might be 'Transformation into a werewolf is often due to a demonic pact', though I'm not sure that this would fit into the context of the rest of the intro... Colin4C 21:24, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
I'm trying to put all the books mentioned in the book list in date order. Does anybody know the dates when these books were published?:
Colin4C 21:00, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
I've moved the info from the Fantasy Werewolf Section into the Lists. Hope everyone approves...I was just thinking that the particular fantasy werewolves featured in this section seemed to be picked at random and were no more special than the 1000 or so other examples from modern fantasy fiction mentioned in the Lists and that therefore the info might as well be put in the latter place... Colin4C 11:09, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
DreamGuy has removed most of the external links (see diff ). I think he removed some of the best quality ones. Also, it is possible that DreamGuy is doing this because he thinks I am on a mission to persecute him, and this is one of the pages I edit the most. Do others here agree or disagree with DreamGuy's massive changes? Mermaid from the Baltic Sea 00:35, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
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After DreamGuy's changes were opposed by this talk page, he is now trying to force the issue with a template. I removed the template, because it smacks of beating a dead horse. DreamGuy reverted. I will now remove it one more time, and ask that DreamGuy follow the rules and not try to keep pressing an issue where neither policy nor other editors are on his side. Mermaid from the Baltic Sea 23:25, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
I have restored mention of werewolf tales deleted by Dreamguy as 'non notable' as this seems to be just his personal POV. To take just one instance H. R. Wakefield's "Death of a Poacher" which Dreamguy deleted is described, as a 'classic of the genre' in The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural's entry on Werewolves (page 455).
OK. The edit wars need to stop. DreamGuy is actually formatting the article correctly in this edit. Section headers should be written as "Twentieth century" and not "Twentieth Century". As for the more trivial episodes he removed, I would tend to agree. Single instances of werewolves in a television program that otherwise has nothing to do with werewolves is extremely trivial. Wikipedia is not a fan site. There are a fair amount of redlinks in the article. Maybe rather than edit war, it would be better to create articles for those redlinks that you want kept. IrishGuy talk 21:15, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
Once again, DreamGuy has snuck in the external links changes that concensus has repeatedly opposed on the werewolf fiction talk page, under the cover of making many other edits at the same time. See this edit. Making constructive changes at the same time does not give DreamGuy free license to continue his edit war! I appreciate his good changes, but he should give way on those particular changes where the other editors of the article have repeatedly opposed him and agree that policy does not support his side! Mermaid from the Baltic Sea 18:06, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
Should mention of H. R. Wakefield's "Death of a Poacher" (described, as a 'classic of the genre' in The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural's entry on Werewolves (page 455).) be deleted from this article? Colin4C 11:11, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
Colin4C 18:45, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
See this for the material that DreamGuy keeps removing. I'm asking to see what others here think. In my opinion, much of this material is notable. In particular, when an individual television episode is notable enough to have an entire Wikipedia article devoted to just it, then I think that it is probably notable enough to be briefly mentioned in an article on werewolf fiction. What do you all think? Mermaid from the Baltic Sea 18:43, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
I've restored the stuff about Harry Potter. Though IMHO the Potter books are not the world's greatest literature I think the Potter phenomenon is quite important (judging by the mass readership of the books and the films and the fact that the books seem to have made reading fashionable again for children). Also I defend the section on juvenile fiction as I know that kids read the wikipedia. Who are we to say that juvenile fiction is unimportant just cos we mature readers are supposedly 'older and wiser' (note inverted commas...). Colin4C 19:57, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
If anybody could find some more pictures for this article it would be great... Colin4C 20:58, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
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Not that it matters too much on this topic, but In Golden Sun, There is only one town that
has werwolves and nowhere else are there werewolf-like animals though I think some of the other races resemble vampires. Correct me if i'm wrong.
Rckhound! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rckhound1 ( talk • contribs) 17:25, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
If only because it involved a werecat, not a werewolf. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.123.115.168 ( talk) 02:13, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
Please justify inclusion of tags on Talk page please. If you don't they will be removed. Colin4C ( talk) 18:03, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
Alright, unless someone objects, I'm going to inact WP:Bold and prune the lists of media werewolves have appeared in. Specifically, if they only appear in one episode/installment/volume/whatever, then they're not that important to the series itself, and aren't a viable example (personal opinion, feel free to disagree). As to games, if they're just random mobs, they aren't noteworthy. If they have a major influence on the story, then they should stay. At max, five examples for videogames should be good.
As to the rest (books/film/music)... I'm going to need help with those. We do NOT need that many examples of stuff werewolves have appeared in. Roughly ten examples of books, maybe five examples of music/music videos. There is no reason to have this much cruft. I'm a lycan fan, but this is just nuts. This is going to take a bit, and likely be stretched out over several edits, so if anyone wants to say anything, feel free to speak up. :D -- Tainted Conformity ( talk) 10:00, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
I am certain that there was a comedy series involving a family of werewolves somewhere in the 1998-2008 timeframe. I can't remember anything really beyond the family supposedly eating a whole cow, and a scene where some old people in the back of the car made cracks about "avoiding the moors" and "sticking to the road", which are unfortunately references to the movie American Werewolf in London. If I figure out what this series is, I will post it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.88.66.218 ( talk) 02:37, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
The last few paragraphs of the Twentieth Century section actually deal more Twenty-First Century examples, however there is no Twenty-First Century section - I believe one should be added. 70.104.1.204 ( talk) 20:45, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Should we include the three Monster Hunter books by Larry Correia to the novel list, since Earl Harbinger is a werewolf? Or at least monster Hunter: Alpha since the whole book is centered around werewolves. ZenZaku
A lot of people out there believe that there are werewolves, or lycanthropes, out in the world. Is this true? Most people (and this may shock you) say yes. Since the beginning of time it seems that there have been werewolf legends around. I myself can not say whether lycanthropes are real, or not, but there is ,surprisingly, lots of evidence that suggests that they are.
Recently, I have discovered that the unfamous author Maddelynne Smithson is coming out with a new book called "The Guide to Werewolves (for teens and tweens becoming one)". In it she explains how werewolves got here and the myths and truths about them. Maddelynne has also written "Area 51 for a Russian Girl" and "Windell". Though these books are not yet published, and are only available to a small amount of people, such as her friends, family, some school students, or anyone who can get access to a copy through one of the sources.
In her new book she talks about all the changes you go through as you become a werewolf, and how to properly handle them. Such as when you begin growing fur (for girls) lots of shaving,waxing,and tweezing and also a few bobby pins and hairbows should take care of it. Growing fur (for a boy)when it comes to legs,chest, and underarms you don't have to do much, but do shave when there is excessive fur growth, and if yo don't want constantly cut your hair use styling gel and give yourself boys' styled long hair or ( as Maddelynne calls it) give yourself a stallion tail, which is a pony tail for men. Every occasional chapter though you go to two different lives one a girl becoming a werewolf and the other a boy, and their new lives,how they are adjusting to life , and their personnal expierinces which usually leads to the subject of the next guideline chapter.
The release date is currently unknown ,but should be out from late 2012- mid 2014 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.15.255.19 ( talk) 02:18, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
Starting next month, I am going to start removing the info on anything not actually about werewolves. Featuring werewolves in a movie or book (Harry Potter,) or just a using them as a random mob in video games (Castlevania) doesn't qualify them for inclusion in this article. If there are any objections to this, please let me know before I start mass deleting stuff. The man with shades ( talk) 07:35, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
"However, in most legends influenced by medieval theology the werewolf was a satanic beast with a craving for human flesh."
This is a surprising statement considering that, in the only medieval literature discussed, the werewolf is the hero. If you check, you'll find that werewolves did not turn into satanic beasts with a craving for human flesh until the Renaissance period. Before that, werewolves were rather morally ambivalent - they could be good or they could be bad just like anyone else.
Further, it's debatable whether medieval theology can be blamed wholesale since the Orthodox denominations, who also had a presence in the Middle Ages, was (and still is according to the monograph, written by Harry Senn, "Werewolves and Vampires in Romania") also pretty ambivalent about werewolves. WolfVanZandt ( talk) 07:05, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
It's the last day of the Month. No indication it's based on any Calendar other then the Solar one Europe normally used back then. Even it it was a Lunar Calendar, the Full Moon is the middle of The Month in those. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.144.34.210 ( talk) 17:53, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
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There is only a short reference to the film very loosely based upon the book series. Any reason not to add a short section on the three book series? It is all about werewolves. --Surv1v4l1st ▌ Talk| Contribs▌ 17:32, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
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So, I tried a bit of a cleanup, according to what I'd expect from such an article - namely a comparison between different takes of werewolves. If the general public expects something else, well, I guess it can be changed back or edited. Unfortunately I'm not all that familiar with many of the books/movies etc, so it would be great if other people could add more information about the different kinds of werewolves. Anke 18:40, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
There are the werewolves that we know from movies, From Lawrence Talbot to Remus Lupin, that turn into an out of control killer every full moon. Then there are werewolves, like Constable Anugala from Discworld, that can transform at will, and control their wolf forms. I suggest that by chaning at will, these latter weres syphon off the power of the curse that would otherwise erupt at the full moon.
There is absolutely no reason to merge this article with the main Werewolf article. They are both quite substantially large, and by separating them out the people who wanted to list all the minute mostly nonnotable videogames and so forth now have more free reign to add what they like here. This merge notice was put here by an editor undergoing RfC for his abusive edits, including undoing changes I make on articles. I mentioned this as an example of the way things are done here to disprove his point elsewhere and he comes over and tries to undo all the work here. Unless there are objections I will remove the merge tag as clearly inappropriate within a day or so. DreamGuy 06:16, August 4, 2005 (UTC)
just becasue i have and RFC going ( and btw, LEARN TO SPELL) doenst mean that this article shouldnt be added to the end of the werewolfarticle, as the Vampire article will have Vampire Fiction added to the end thereof. please stop trying to weasel and mention my RFC everywhere to try to influcene opinion. Gabrielsimon 06:18, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
I agree with DreamGuy, this article should stay separate. It used to be part of Werewolf and there was constant conflict as people kept adding relatively trivial examples of modern werewolf fiction to what should be a very large-scale overview of the entirety of werewolfdom. Bryan 06:59, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
Wagner the Wehr-Wolf is being proofed by Distributed Proofreaders. When it gets released to Project Gutenberg it would be nice to create an article page for the book, with a link to the Gutenberg text.
I don't think the new Different Takes section (by the way, subheads are not in Titles caps, only the first letter gets capitalized) is an improvement over the way it used to be. It should just basically mention different versions with some examples, but promoting these mostly trivial examples into full subheads as if they were milestones in werewolf fiction or something just looks silly. Some other edits happened recently so I don't want to just revert, but I think it does need to be considerably different than how it is now. DreamGuy 01:39, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
I'm surprised there isn't a section talking about songs featuring or about werewolves - I can probably come up with almost a dozen off the top of my head.
I'm going to make that section now, please help out if you can. The Son Of Nothing 15:16, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
I've put this section in chronological order. Hopefully this will help separate modern pop hack-work from the older classics of the genre. Colin4C 12:47, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
The new intro, starting with folklore, seems awkward, vague and slightly off-topic. We've got a whole nother article dealing with folklore, why introduce it in a confusing manner here? I vote for a re-write of the intro, excluding folklore, and tightening up the writing so it doesn't sound as if it doesn't know what it is going on about. Mermaid from the Baltic Sea 17:50, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
I reverted this this modification:
'Earliest printed fiction' seems somewhat meaningless and inaccurate. It does not clarify any putative vagueness, but rather adds to it. 'The werewolf often being due to a demonic pact' is not good English. I guess the meaning might be 'Transformation into a werewolf is often due to a demonic pact', though I'm not sure that this would fit into the context of the rest of the intro... Colin4C 21:24, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
I'm trying to put all the books mentioned in the book list in date order. Does anybody know the dates when these books were published?:
Colin4C 21:00, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
I've moved the info from the Fantasy Werewolf Section into the Lists. Hope everyone approves...I was just thinking that the particular fantasy werewolves featured in this section seemed to be picked at random and were no more special than the 1000 or so other examples from modern fantasy fiction mentioned in the Lists and that therefore the info might as well be put in the latter place... Colin4C 11:09, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
DreamGuy has removed most of the external links (see diff ). I think he removed some of the best quality ones. Also, it is possible that DreamGuy is doing this because he thinks I am on a mission to persecute him, and this is one of the pages I edit the most. Do others here agree or disagree with DreamGuy's massive changes? Mermaid from the Baltic Sea 00:35, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
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After DreamGuy's changes were opposed by this talk page, he is now trying to force the issue with a template. I removed the template, because it smacks of beating a dead horse. DreamGuy reverted. I will now remove it one more time, and ask that DreamGuy follow the rules and not try to keep pressing an issue where neither policy nor other editors are on his side. Mermaid from the Baltic Sea 23:25, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
I have restored mention of werewolf tales deleted by Dreamguy as 'non notable' as this seems to be just his personal POV. To take just one instance H. R. Wakefield's "Death of a Poacher" which Dreamguy deleted is described, as a 'classic of the genre' in The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural's entry on Werewolves (page 455).
OK. The edit wars need to stop. DreamGuy is actually formatting the article correctly in this edit. Section headers should be written as "Twentieth century" and not "Twentieth Century". As for the more trivial episodes he removed, I would tend to agree. Single instances of werewolves in a television program that otherwise has nothing to do with werewolves is extremely trivial. Wikipedia is not a fan site. There are a fair amount of redlinks in the article. Maybe rather than edit war, it would be better to create articles for those redlinks that you want kept. IrishGuy talk 21:15, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
Once again, DreamGuy has snuck in the external links changes that concensus has repeatedly opposed on the werewolf fiction talk page, under the cover of making many other edits at the same time. See this edit. Making constructive changes at the same time does not give DreamGuy free license to continue his edit war! I appreciate his good changes, but he should give way on those particular changes where the other editors of the article have repeatedly opposed him and agree that policy does not support his side! Mermaid from the Baltic Sea 18:06, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
Should mention of H. R. Wakefield's "Death of a Poacher" (described, as a 'classic of the genre' in The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural's entry on Werewolves (page 455).) be deleted from this article? Colin4C 11:11, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
Colin4C 18:45, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
See this for the material that DreamGuy keeps removing. I'm asking to see what others here think. In my opinion, much of this material is notable. In particular, when an individual television episode is notable enough to have an entire Wikipedia article devoted to just it, then I think that it is probably notable enough to be briefly mentioned in an article on werewolf fiction. What do you all think? Mermaid from the Baltic Sea 18:43, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
I've restored the stuff about Harry Potter. Though IMHO the Potter books are not the world's greatest literature I think the Potter phenomenon is quite important (judging by the mass readership of the books and the films and the fact that the books seem to have made reading fashionable again for children). Also I defend the section on juvenile fiction as I know that kids read the wikipedia. Who are we to say that juvenile fiction is unimportant just cos we mature readers are supposedly 'older and wiser' (note inverted commas...). Colin4C 19:57, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
If anybody could find some more pictures for this article it would be great... Colin4C 20:58, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
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Not that it matters too much on this topic, but In Golden Sun, There is only one town that
has werwolves and nowhere else are there werewolf-like animals though I think some of the other races resemble vampires. Correct me if i'm wrong.
Rckhound! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rckhound1 ( talk • contribs) 17:25, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
If only because it involved a werecat, not a werewolf. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.123.115.168 ( talk) 02:13, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
Please justify inclusion of tags on Talk page please. If you don't they will be removed. Colin4C ( talk) 18:03, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
Alright, unless someone objects, I'm going to inact WP:Bold and prune the lists of media werewolves have appeared in. Specifically, if they only appear in one episode/installment/volume/whatever, then they're not that important to the series itself, and aren't a viable example (personal opinion, feel free to disagree). As to games, if they're just random mobs, they aren't noteworthy. If they have a major influence on the story, then they should stay. At max, five examples for videogames should be good.
As to the rest (books/film/music)... I'm going to need help with those. We do NOT need that many examples of stuff werewolves have appeared in. Roughly ten examples of books, maybe five examples of music/music videos. There is no reason to have this much cruft. I'm a lycan fan, but this is just nuts. This is going to take a bit, and likely be stretched out over several edits, so if anyone wants to say anything, feel free to speak up. :D -- Tainted Conformity ( talk) 10:00, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
I am certain that there was a comedy series involving a family of werewolves somewhere in the 1998-2008 timeframe. I can't remember anything really beyond the family supposedly eating a whole cow, and a scene where some old people in the back of the car made cracks about "avoiding the moors" and "sticking to the road", which are unfortunately references to the movie American Werewolf in London. If I figure out what this series is, I will post it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.88.66.218 ( talk) 02:37, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
The last few paragraphs of the Twentieth Century section actually deal more Twenty-First Century examples, however there is no Twenty-First Century section - I believe one should be added. 70.104.1.204 ( talk) 20:45, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Should we include the three Monster Hunter books by Larry Correia to the novel list, since Earl Harbinger is a werewolf? Or at least monster Hunter: Alpha since the whole book is centered around werewolves. ZenZaku
A lot of people out there believe that there are werewolves, or lycanthropes, out in the world. Is this true? Most people (and this may shock you) say yes. Since the beginning of time it seems that there have been werewolf legends around. I myself can not say whether lycanthropes are real, or not, but there is ,surprisingly, lots of evidence that suggests that they are.
Recently, I have discovered that the unfamous author Maddelynne Smithson is coming out with a new book called "The Guide to Werewolves (for teens and tweens becoming one)". In it she explains how werewolves got here and the myths and truths about them. Maddelynne has also written "Area 51 for a Russian Girl" and "Windell". Though these books are not yet published, and are only available to a small amount of people, such as her friends, family, some school students, or anyone who can get access to a copy through one of the sources.
In her new book she talks about all the changes you go through as you become a werewolf, and how to properly handle them. Such as when you begin growing fur (for girls) lots of shaving,waxing,and tweezing and also a few bobby pins and hairbows should take care of it. Growing fur (for a boy)when it comes to legs,chest, and underarms you don't have to do much, but do shave when there is excessive fur growth, and if yo don't want constantly cut your hair use styling gel and give yourself boys' styled long hair or ( as Maddelynne calls it) give yourself a stallion tail, which is a pony tail for men. Every occasional chapter though you go to two different lives one a girl becoming a werewolf and the other a boy, and their new lives,how they are adjusting to life , and their personnal expierinces which usually leads to the subject of the next guideline chapter.
The release date is currently unknown ,but should be out from late 2012- mid 2014 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.15.255.19 ( talk) 02:18, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
Starting next month, I am going to start removing the info on anything not actually about werewolves. Featuring werewolves in a movie or book (Harry Potter,) or just a using them as a random mob in video games (Castlevania) doesn't qualify them for inclusion in this article. If there are any objections to this, please let me know before I start mass deleting stuff. The man with shades ( talk) 07:35, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
"However, in most legends influenced by medieval theology the werewolf was a satanic beast with a craving for human flesh."
This is a surprising statement considering that, in the only medieval literature discussed, the werewolf is the hero. If you check, you'll find that werewolves did not turn into satanic beasts with a craving for human flesh until the Renaissance period. Before that, werewolves were rather morally ambivalent - they could be good or they could be bad just like anyone else.
Further, it's debatable whether medieval theology can be blamed wholesale since the Orthodox denominations, who also had a presence in the Middle Ages, was (and still is according to the monograph, written by Harry Senn, "Werewolves and Vampires in Romania") also pretty ambivalent about werewolves. WolfVanZandt ( talk) 07:05, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
It's the last day of the Month. No indication it's based on any Calendar other then the Solar one Europe normally used back then. Even it it was a Lunar Calendar, the Full Moon is the middle of The Month in those. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.144.34.210 ( talk) 17:53, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
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There is only a short reference to the film very loosely based upon the book series. Any reason not to add a short section on the three book series? It is all about werewolves. --Surv1v4l1st ▌ Talk| Contribs▌ 17:32, 13 October 2020 (UTC)