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[doktor-monty]

victorian werewolf design by me (:

[radheim]

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[laurasimonsdaughter]

Vampires VS Werewolves: who would win in a straight fight? (to the death or no, your choice)

Aw, anon why make them fight when they could be bff’sroaming the moonlit night together??

But for the sake of argument, takinga classic European vampire and werewolf…in a straight fight the werewolfwould win during a full moon and during the day, and the vampire would win anyother night.

However, ifyou want to make this interesting youhave to allow them some weapons. And I’m not talking silver bullets or stakes.No, no, no. Give me a vampire and a werewolfhaving the most squabbling, childishfight imaginable:

The werewolf chucking bulbs of garlic to make the vampiresick and throwing handfuls of grain around to compel them to count them

The vampirealternating flinging joints of meat around to distract the werewolf withblowing on an annoyingly shrill dog whistle

Fist the werewolf pounces on thevampire only to have them turn into a bat so the wolf slams their nose into theground

Then vampire tries to bite the werewolf and ends up with amouth full of fur

Even better if they know where theother lives and take to trapping each other in their houses with silver latcheson the door and rose bushes planted on the doorstep

Honestly, vampires and werewolvesare much more fun when they get to be petty rivals instead of angstyenemies~

[nonetoon]

Man do I love me some monster boys! I’ve been reading Dracula so I got in the mood to do some classical monster designs, and here we are! 

... Not much more to say than that, really. I do want to do some more monster designs in the future (I need to find me some good lady monsters! The only one’s I can think of rn are the three sisters/wives of Dracula and the Bride of Frankenstein, but I kinda want to do some that stand on their own? If you guys know of any, let me know!).

Also, did a lil’ speepdaint for you guys too!

Enjoy!

[mapsontheweb]

Map of werewolf witch trials

by subthings2

   Mapping the location of 223 witch trials that included accusations of turning into a wolf, mostly based on Lorey's online list (just under 200 listed). Blécourt gives a few corrections to Lorey's list, Klaniczay has 13 Hungarian trials, and Madar, Metsvah and Winkler collectively give 14 Estonian trials; Metsvah says there are 30 recorded in Estonia in total, but data on the rest weren't provided. When a location has multiple trials, the crosses form a circle around the city so as to not overlap - this is most obvious for Tallinn, Riga, and Sopron.  

   The initial point was to visualise how the trials spread over time, but what it also makes really obvious is how tightly clustered most of them are - this matches how regional the witch trials in general were, but also that beliefs in werewolves weren't evenly spread across Europe; hence the lack of anything in Great Britain, Basque Country, but weirdly also Scandinavia where southern Sweden is known for having a decent number of werewolves in its folklore.  

   Finally, after going through all of Lorey's descriptions, there's a few that stood out that I wanted to share (machine translated from German):  

   1619 Tonnis Steven von Grevenstein, shepherd in Kallenhardt (Electoral Cologne Office of Rüthen). “Out of pain and unbearable torment, I had to say that  I was a magician and a Wehrwolf, but God in heaven knows that everything is a lie and I have never seen a devil in my life.”  

   1652 Wilhelm Scheffern, shepherd from Metterich (di Metternich near Münstermaifeld, Kurtrier). One of the reasons he was talked about was because - in contrast to his successors - there were never any losses due to wolf attacks during his time as a shepherd. "It is entirely believed that the defendant could turn himself into a werewolf" (6th count) and "that he ... once made himself invisible in the field" (point 15). However, previously in points 2 and 3 "that his "The father was burned because of the vice" and "that the defendant's sisters were burned years ago because of the vice of magic." (Court verdict not received; according to Krämer, however, probably executed.)  

   1661 Cuno Jung, a shepherd from Westerburg, had not defended himself strongly enough against being called a werewolf. Because his parents were already under suspicion and his sister had been executed as a witch, he spoke out against the witchcraft trials. He also refused to take part in an execution as a lay judge. He once even tried to buy his way out as an observer at a witch trial. Executed in Westerburg.  

   there's also the WAR WLF of Lemgo, featuring this funky little guy that's also had several people write about the rather unfunky little trial  

   the single case aaaall the way up in Finland is Erkki Juhonpoika  

   Sources:  

   Willem de Blécourt, ‘The Differentiated Werewolf: An Introduction to Cluster Methodology’, Werewolf Histories (2015), pg 7  

   Gábor Klaniczay, Bengt Ankerloo & Gustav Henningson (ed.), ‘Hungary: The Accusations and the Universe of Popular Magic’, Early Modern European Witchcraft: Centres and Peripheries (1993) pg 254, footnote 122  

   Elmar Lorey, ‘Werwolfprozesse in der Frühen Neuzeit’, http://www.elmar-lorey.de/prozesse.htm (2000)  

   Maia Madar, Bengt Ankerloo & Gustav Henningson (ed.), ‘Estonia I: Werewolves and Poisoners’, Early Modern European Witchcraft: Centres and Peripheries (1993), pg 270-271  

   Merili Metsvah, Willem de Blécourt (ed.), ‘Estonian Werewolf History’, Werewolf Histories (2015), pg 210 & footnote 25  

   Rudolf Winkler, ‘Uber Hexenwahn und Hexenprozesse in Estland wahrend der Schwedenherrschaft’, Baltische Monatsschrift, 67 (1909), pg 333-4  

[shaw-punsexualnerd]

Some crappy gravity falls' mythology doodles

[maxxthewerewolf]

There was a ring of energy around the moon the other night. And I couldn't stop staring at it. I wanted to just scream.

Maxx