Welcome to Werewolf Suggestions

Sorry for the very unannounced hiatus, I have been working towards my Masters degree in Death, Religion, and Culture! I’m enjoying it so far, but it’s a hell of a lot of work!

I am absolutely blown away that you guys are still sending in questions, submissions, and prompts because it reminds me that all the hard work I put in to this blog does actually mean something! Did you know we’re also close to 600 followers already?! You guys are incredible!

However! My queue (as usual) is at zero, and desperately needs suggestions! I have a few questions that I will be answering and adding to the queue, but that may take a little while (due to research, thinking out answers, etc) so please send in as many suggestions as you can! For every one suggestion I get, I add one of my own in to bulk it up!

Thanks for sticking with me, pack!

How would you feel if one of your followers was a witch?

Grey says: It is easy to assume that witches and werewolves would be natural enemies; one cursing the other with the bestial affliction, and the other seeking revenge by bloodshed. However, the history of our kind is more of allegiance that you may think.

Humans tend to forget their history fairly quickly, but you do not have to be supernaturally inclined to have heard of the Witch Trials, the most famous being in Salem. However, little do people know that this cultural phenomenon (whatever you believe was the cause) was not limited to the American town, but originally began in Europe in the Middle Ages, and spread worldwide across the decades.

At the time the killing of the suspicious began, there was no such understandings of pathogens, bacteria or other causes of diseases and conditions, and so any strange condition that could not be explained was often attributed to magic or the supernatural. Hysteria caused by suffering and hallucinations / delusions forced authorities to blame someone, and soon the blame fell on to not only witches, but werewolves as well. The growth of belief in both these terrifying creatures ran parallel. 

Like the witchcraft trials as a whole, the trial of supposed werewolves emerged in what is now Switzerland during the Valais Witch Trials in the early 15th century. These events then spread throughout Europe in the 16th, peaking in the 17th and subsiding by the 18th century. The persecution of werewolves and the associated folklore of them is an integral part of the “witch-hunt” phenomenon, albeit a marginal one that is usually left untouched by historians, but still lead to the deaths of many in the name of combating the supernatural.