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Is there any truth to the werewolf legend?

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You know what a werewolf is. A person who changes into a wolf or wolf-like beast on the occasion of a full moon or because of a magic spell. We've all seen the movies, and we know that people once really believed. Books like Half Human, Half Animal: Tales of Werewolves and Related Creatures, True Werewolves of History and Werewolves and Shapeshifters are packed with werewolf legends. Is there any truth to any of this? Could anything like a werewolf really exist? People have wondered about this question for ages.


Monster Hunters Think Werewolves could be Real
In Monsters: An Investigator's Guide to Magical Beings, John Michael Greer explains that werewolves are witches who choose to turn into wolves. They can be good or bad, depending on their human personalities. He tells you how to hunt werewolves, but he warns that you need to find out if the werewolf you are dealing with is good or evil FIRST. In the book Three Men Seeking Monsters: Six Weeks in Pursuit of Werewolves, Lake Monsters, Giant Cats, Ghostly Devil Dogs, and Ape-Men Nick Redfern tells of his adventures hunting all sorts of supernatural creatures. He thinks werewolves are some kind of phantasmal boogeyman. Many monster hunters have investigated the Beast of Bray Road, America's most famous werewolf. Read all about it in The Beast of Bray Road: Tailing Wisconsin's Werewolf.


Scientists Explain it as a Mental Problem
Books like Man into Wolf: An Anthropological Interpretation of Sadism, Masochism and Lycanthropy, Witchcraft, Lycanthropy, Drugs, and Disease: An Anthropological Study of the European Witch-Hunts (American University Studies Series XI, Anthropology and Sociology) and The Werewolf Book: The Encyclopedia of Shape-Shifting Beings take the view that werewolves are real, but that it is not a physical transformation. They say lycanthropy is really a mental illness that is all about violence, cannibalism and necrophilia. Books like Werewolf Complex: America's Fascination with Violence America's Fascination with Violence (Global Issues Series) use werewolves as a symbol for the worst criminals. Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumors and Gossip (New Departures in Anthropology) is one of the few books to say that werewolves are a product of other people's mental problems (i. e. not blaming the alleged werewolves themselves).


The Magical Explanation
According to books like Astral Plane: Its Scenery, Inhabitants and Phenomena and Magical Use of Thought Forms: A Proven System of Mental & Spiritual Empowerment, werewolves are real. They are people with special powers who are able to manipulate the boundary between this reality and the astral plane, in this way causing their transformations. If you want to understand the weird world of the astral plane, read Astral Dynamics: A New Approach to Out-of-Body Experiences and The Astral World: Its Scenes, Dwellers, and Phenomena (Occult Manuals). If you want to experience the astral world and develop the ability to interact with it yourself first-hand, read Out-of-Body Experiences: How to Have Them and What to Expect first of all, then China Falun Gong, Revised Edition to build your subtle energy, then The Future of the Body: Explorations Into the Further Evolution Of Human Nature and Etheric Anatomy: The Three Selves and Astral Travel to really understand what you are doing. Witches, Werewolves, and Fairies: Shapeshifters and Astral Doubles in the Middle Ages tells how werewolves supposedly applied these powers, but you'll need to read The Magic of Shapeshifting too in order to really understand everything that is being said.


Weird Science
If you do not like the astral plane and witchcraft, there are other ideas you could have about real werewolves. There are a lot of ideas from the leading edge of physics that could be used to explain werewolves. Some things in quantum physics are already much weirder than a person changing into a wolf. Who are scientists to say that there are no werewolves out there? Try reading any of the following books, and you'll see plenty of ways that the mechanisms for werewolf transformations could be set up to work, from mass teleportation of subatomic particles to hidden pocket dimensiuns:
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
The Great Beyond: Higher Dimensions, Parallel Universes and the Extraordinary Search for a Theory of Everything
Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimens ion
Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
A Brief History of Time
NOVA - The Elegant Universe
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
The Holographic Universe
Mysticism and the New Physics (Compass)
The Self-Aware Universe
What the Bleep Do We Know!?
The Little Book of Bleeps: Excerpts from the Award-Winning Movie What the (#$%&) Bleep Do We Know
The Hidden Messages in Water
The True Power of Water
The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe
Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything


Real Wolves
Maybe werewolves aren't real. But they are based on wolves, and wolves are real. Here are some cool wolf books for people who care about real wolves, not real werewolves:
Alaska's Wolf Man: The 1915-55 Wilderness Adventures of Frank Glaser
Wolves of the World (Worldlife Discovery Guides)
The Wolf Almanac
Wolves At Our Door
To the Top of the World: Adventures with Arctic Wolves
The Return of the Wolf to Yellowstone

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Monster Hunters Think Werewolves could be Real
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