The Return Of Werewolf There Wolf

I know that in times where war and terrorism are front page news, it is hard to comprehend the spirit fueling the beastly nature of man. When we remove the trigger words and phrases used to manipulate the public consciousness into a political word salad, all that is left is a bare bones reality that chaotic powers can surge through human beings. They can allow a beastly nature to take hold where all love and passion is replaced by rage and animal instincts.

We live in times where the flesh fest is being paraded on the nightly news. People are nothing more than meat that can be fed to a phantom monster, devouring hearts and leaving people wanting answers. At night when the trees scratch the windows and the wind howls, you may want to pay close attention to your surroundings. The reason is simple – it isn’t the terrorist, or the psycho killer that may be lurking outside your home — it can be an animal that has no other priority than to corner its prey with great accuracy.

You may be the one it looks for. You may not believe in vampires or werewolves because they have been put into fantasy stories and made into icons of the movie screen.

In the year 2011, Father Rufus Pereira, Roman Catholic priest and exorcist appointed by Pope John Paul II, took to the podium at a Catholic Conference; he had an urgent message from Pope Benedict XVI about Satan. Some 300 catholic priests appointed by the Pope as exorcists were called together to discuss vampirism, shape-shifting and mental illness.

The conference was held at Poland’s Jasna Gora monastery, home to the venerated Black Madonna icon. The congress examined the current fashion for vampirism in Europe and the world-over, schizophrenia and other mental disorders and the topic of demonic shape-shifting into profane forms.

The priests were warned that the devil’s deceit is in the acceptance of devils, vampires and the mental illness that turns people into vicious killers. The Catholic Father was very serious about the societal change in attitudes towards the reality of evil and the invitation of demonic denizens into society.

According to a group of Christian scholars, this comes as the world is experiencing an explosion of ancient occultism combined with wicked fascination for ghosts and all things paranormal. In the United States alone, there are now more than two hundred thousand registered witches, this group claims, and as many as 8 million unregistered practitioners of “the craft.” On college and high school campuses, vampires, werewolves, and other “creatures of the night” are esteemed as objects of desire and idolized by young men and women who view them as cult icons of envious mystical power.

It seems a bit odd that the interest of the churches in something this paranormal is happening now. The fight against so-called vampires and werewolves has always been a secret held by the church. The very idea of chasing demons out of the market place has given the church an archaic and medieval image. Now it seems they really are not that covert. The war against Satan is ageless and the fear of a shape-shifter has been a tale as old as time.

In the forests surrounding Alert Bay, B.C. on Cormorant Island, locals are claiming that a loud howling noise is being heard some are saying it could be a Sasquatch, however, the island is small and there really is no wildlife living on the island.

Veteran Bigfoot researcher, John Bindernagle arrived at the island and it is believed he could not find any evidence that it was indeed, a Sasquatch. The only other conclusion is that it could be a dog, but locals believe it is too loud to be a dog or human howling.

Surprisingly, there are those that are leaping to the conclusion that it may be both.

Now keep in mind there is no wildlife in the area… so it sound like someone is hinting the sounds may be coming from what the Indians call – the wild man or even a werewolf.

Speak of the werewolf and you are told that it is a mythical creature. Others will tell you about lycanthropy and how people would have the appearance of wolves. Shape-shifting has also been recorded anciently, where a man wears the skin of a creature and becomes that creature. What is a werewolf and how does one become one? Have there been werewolves in our midst? The answer is surprising.

It has been observed that perhaps the inhabitants of hell far exceed those who reside in heaven. When the moon is full, it is written that the inhabitants of these netherworlds journey to earth looking for prey. While animal, vegetable, and mineral are pleasing to these profane creatures, it is man who often gets in the way. When the creatures have their first taste of blood, they know what is most desirous of the planet. However, it is not just any blood. It is the blood of the young and only blood that is taken when the target is in fear for its life.

With the quickness of a cat, the monster attacks from the shadows pouncing on its victim, ripping its throat out and quenching its thirst with the severed vein which serves as a fountain of life. The twitching body slowly loses its life force and the creature drops the lifeless body to the ground and moves on to the next unsuspecting victim. The story of the shape-shifter or werewolf is as old as your bedtime stories.

The wolf disguised as grandma lies in the bed as the young girl with the red hood arrives with wine and bread. It is symbolic of trying to get the evil shape-shifting creature to partake of the sacrament. There is also an element of transubstantiation as the shape-shifter eats the girl and then she returns again in an act of resurrection. So perhaps the werewolf is real? That we merely try to explain it away with science when in reality, it is creature that has been yanked from its domain in hell to prey upon children.

“Even a man who is pure in heart,
And says his prayers by night,
May become a wolf when the wolf bane blooms
And the autumn moon is bright.”

Werewolf tales existed during the Inquisition. In 1598, a werewolf was reportedly captured and was forced to drink a tub of water to cleanse it of its possession by Satan. The werewolf died of a distended stomach.

Of course, the curse of the werewolf was most definitely a fear at the time as demonic possession would make human beings think and act like beasts. Many were forced to confess they were werewolves or werebears.

Peter Stumpp of Cologne, Germany was brutally tortured until he confessed that he transformed himself into a wolf by a magic apron given to him by the devil. The judges couldn’t find the apron where Stubb claimed it was hidden and so it was explained that Satan had taken the apron back to hell. Stubb was sentenced to have the flesh pulled off his bones in ten places with red-hot pincers, then to have his legs and arms broken with a wooden axe; finally to be beheaded and burned.

On December 14, 1598, a tailor of Chalons, was sentenced to death for having confessed to luring children into his shop, murdering and eating them. It was believed that the man was a werewolf however no one will know for sure. Cover-ups aren’t necessarily the product of paranoid conspiracy theorists because the judges ordered the court records burned.

In 1521 at Poligny, three men were induced by torture to say they had made themselves wolves with a magic salve given them by the devil, and in wolf shape they had eaten several children, and enjoyed sexual relations with wild she-wolves. Gilles Garnier was a famous “lycanthrope” caught by the Inquisition, tortured and executed for having devoured children. The charge was not murder or cannibalism, but lycanthropy. Whatever was left of the pagan wolf cults, it seems the Christian church molded the material into the enduring legend of the werewolf.

However, medieval Christianity is not the only place where men were men were cursed with the insatiable need to rip the flesh off of the bones of man like wolves.

It was reported recently that 71 year old Robert Howard died in a British prison. Howard was child killer and rapist who was called the Wolfhill Werewolf. It is believed Robert Howard could be connected to the disappearance of up to six women, including two high-profile cases in Ireland.

It is believed Howard’s history of sex attacks and suspected murders stretches over 40 years, since he was first convicted of burglary at the age of 13. The 71-year-old called himself ‘Wolfhill Werewolf’ because he claimed that he would change into a werewolf and stalk the night looking for prey, after that claim he spent some time in a mental institution.

After his release he continues to rape and kill female victims and then eventually finds himself in jail. The security at the jail had said that Howard would walk around the prison like a zombie and while in his cell, would writhe and screamed like a wolf. Otherwise, he was very soft spoken and when he acted normal, seemed very nice and well adjusted.

He later died of natural causes.

Ancient Navajo beliefs speak of the shape-shifter and its mannerisms. The Skin Walker wears the skin of who it wants to be, and literally becomes that person or that creature. The skin walker often wears the skin of the wolf and of course the mentality of that creature takes over the mind of the man, thus making him a werewolf.

There were many rituals that were said to transform a man into a werewolf. They would draw circles and ingest substances that would put them in a trancelike state. Great fires would be built and opium was smoked then a medicine man would use an incantation:

“Hail, Hail, Hail, great wolf spirit, Hail!
A boon I ask thee, mighty shade.
Within this circle I have made.
Make me a werewolf strong and bold.
The terror alike of young and old.
Grant me a figure tall and spare;
The speed of the elk, the claws of the bear;
The poison of snakes, the wit of the fox;
The stealth of the wolf, the strength of the ox;
The jaws of the tiger, the teeth of the shark;
The eyes of a cat that sees in the dark;
Make me climb like a monkey, scent like a dog;
Swim like a fish, and eat like a hog.
Haste, Haste, Haste, lonely spirit, Haste!
Here, wan and drear, magic spell making,
Findest thou me – shaking, quaking.
Softly fan me as I lie.
And thy mystic touch apply.
Touch apply, and I swear that when I die,
When I die, I will serve thee evermore,
Evermore, in gray wolf land, cold and raw”.

The supplicant then kisses the ground three times, and advances toward a fire and then screams:

“Make me a werewolf! Make me a man-eater!
Make me a werewolf! Make me a woman-eater!
Make me a werewolf! Make me a human -eater!
I pine for blood! Human blood!
Give it to me! Give it to me tonight!
Great Wolf Spirit! Give it to me, and heart, body, and soul, I am yours!”

It was told that after all was said the trees would begin to rustle, and the wind would moan and out of the sudden darkness there would be a glowing, tall, cylindrical, pillar-like phantom of the Unknown, seven or eight feet in height.

There are others who claim that the column would take on a half-man, half-human form and look gray in color with large eyes. It would then transform into a woman with large ears and a doglike snout. It eventually transforms into a wolf. The wolf then would bite the supplicant.

It would then produce a prolonged howl that sounds as if it is produced from the bowels of the earth, a piercing, harrowing whine, or a low laugh of hellish glee. The supplicant is now a werewolf. He undergoes his first morphing into wolf form the following evening at sunset, reassuming his human shape at dawn. This will continue until his death, when he may once morph either from man form or wolf form.

The Spanish story of Manuel Blanco Romasanta is one that talks of a ritual that Romasanta performed before he would attack his victims and eating them and leaving behind their bones. He would strip off his clothes dance in the moonlight and then roll around on the ground three times in order to become a werewolf.

Many people say that the werewolf legend can be explained away by a disorder called lycanthropy. This of course was a medical diagnosis which did not explain why people were seeing wolves in areas where wolves did not live.

In 17th-century England, for example, lycanthropes were generally considered victims of delusion due to excessive melancholy—not because English doctors were so far ahead of their Continental colleagues at the time, but rather because wolves were then already extinct in their country.

That is why behavioral studies at the time were keen on looking into why certain people were affected by the full moon. This is where we get the term, “Lunatic.” Soon, doctors avoided “crying wolf” and decided that more conventional diagnoses such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder would explain the delusion of being a beast or a wolf.

By the 19th century and well into the 20th century, the powerful belief in werewolves would not go away. It was then that the “Shape Shifter” or the “satanically possessed man beast” brought forth through satanic ritual was a popular subject of campfire stories, books and movies.

Between the legends, the satanic ritualism and the clinical diagnoses of lycanthropy, there have been sightings of upright walking wolves that are believed to hybrid human shape-shifters or changelings that have been seen by hunters and other unsuspecting victims.

In the purest black magical sense, there has been a movement among the practitioners of the black arts which promotes the idea of “Atavistic Resurgence.” The late Kenneth Grant, known occultist ceremonial magician and prominent advocate of the Thelemite religion stated the resurgence of the beastly nature of man can be explained as a divine union with mankind and their primal appetites.

Grant stated:

“Atavistic resurgence, a primal urge towards union with the Divine by returning to the common source of all, is indicated by the backward symbolism peculiar to all Sabbath ceremonies, as also of many ideas connected with witchcraft, sorcery and magic. Whether it be the symbol of the moon presiding over nocturnal ecstasies; the words of power chanted backwards; the back-to-back dance performed in opposition to the sun’s course; the devil’s tail – are all instances of reversal and symbolic of Will and Desire turning within and down to subconscious regions, to the remote past, there to surprise the required atavistic energy for purposes of transformation, healing, initiation, construction or destruction.”

Grant stated that it is possible through black magick to actually transform into a beast and allow for the primal power to possess you. This of course is similar to what shamans do when they wear animal skins in order to bring forth the Skin Walker.

The Werewolf legend is far more complex than the Hollywood tales of silver bullets and wolf bane. Ritualism has anointed the few with the knowledge of shape-shifting and activating the primal nature of man. It is a conjuring of the beast whether it be on two legs or four where either one might be lurking somewhere ready to pounce.

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