#houndkin

i wish i was scary, i wish i was soft -- i wish i’d never grown up this way

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I wouldn’t necessarily consider each past life it’s own separate kin type, rather they all fall under, in some way, wolfkin/caninekin, as either vaguetypes or clado-kintypes! And note I do mention a few past lives I do not consider ‘kin, but they still are related to my wolf past lives.

Lemme go in order chronologically! I’ll try and add the subtypes too :)

400 BC: Demaenetus the Wrestler (past life)

An Ancient Greek wrestler who was able to transform into a wolf

400s: Mythkin / Wolfkin

A very old legend that the Neuri (near modern Belarus) villagers would turn into wolfs a few days a year

400s/Arthurian Era: Melion (past life) , Werewolfkin / Wolfkin

Melion was a figure from King Arthur myth who was said to have transformed into a wolf to hunt a stag for his wife, but becomes stuck as his wife leaves him for someone else. He becomes one of King Arthur’s prized animals, and King Arthur finally realizes it’s one of his knights, as such he finds a way to transform Melion back to human.

1100s: Ossory Werewolfkin

Known as Irish Werewolves, ossory people were thought to be descended from Laignech Fáelad, who like the figure were able to transform into wolves.

1400s Werewolfkin

During the era of witchcraft trials across Europe, werewolf hunts also populated the land. What is distinct abt 15th century werewolves is that it was not a disease nor birthright, but rather a regular human making some ‘pact with the devil’ (read: magic). The werewolves from then would killed dozens of people and commit many crimes, and act feral once human again.

1500s: Blackshuckkin/Blackdogkin

The black shuck was a legend of hellhounds Ronaldo dogs that roamed the moor killing people

Subtypes:

Blackbeastkin: different from a dog or cat, this kin type spans 1500s to modern day

Houndkin: not to a specific time period but it falls specifically under blackshuckkin, and not caninekin

Phantomcatkin: this is a modern subtype under blackdogkin, since black dog sightings continued into modern day, along with the phantom cat sightings in England.

1500s: Benandanti Werewolves

People of a specific tradition were said to turn into wolves in their dreams and fight devils and witches. Considered themselves as good werewolves and hounds of god.

1700s: Beast of Gévaudan, Wolfkin

In the 1760s there were a continuous series of wolf attacks in the town of Gévaudan France. Though wolf attacks occurred, it is merely a legend of a terrible beast who would be killed by men and who come back another day. What was thought to be one regenerative creature, was more than likely multiple wolves in the area continuing to hunt in the town.

1800s: Wolfkin / Redwolfkin

This kintype was alive during the 1800s when settlers killed wolves in the US en masse, resulting in a wolf genocide.

Modern: Mythkin / Werewolfkin

My main and most prominent wolf related lossy life is definitely my modern werewolf kintype. It falls under the depiction of werewolves/lycanthropy as a disease that is passed from people.

Modern: Caninekin Vaguetype / Canidae Clado-kin