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Never Cry Werewolf by Heather Davis features a girl in a red hoodie on the cover, and a main theme of the story is about learning who to trust. The story “The Company of Wolves” by Angela Carter (later adapted into a movie) uses this motif.

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For example, the manga series Hellsing has a league of Nazi werewolves.Īside from being about a wolf, the Red Riding Hood tale involves a wolf who eats humans and masquerades as one, which has led to the story being used in a lot of werewolf stories, especially in film. Germany clearly has a long history with wolves and werewolves! A lot of werewolf novels capitalize on this history. There was also a plan for a resistance force using the name Werwolf, although the name was taken from the Hermann Löns novel, Der Wehrwolf, which was celebrated by the Nazis.

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Hitler’s first name, Adolf, means “noble wolf” and he used “Wolf” as a code name for himself.

In Nazi Germany, Hitler had a military headquarters with the code name Werwolf.

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Montague Summers reprinted the account of Stubbe’s trial and execution in his book The Werewolf. After his death, a wolf’s body was hung with Stubbe’s head in place of the wolf’s head, as a warning.

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Before having his head cut off and his body burned, he was brutally tortured by having his skin ripped off and his limbs broken.

Peter Stubbe was a German man convicted of lycanthropy in 1589.

While the story has Italian origins, the Grimm version became very popular and could account for the association of Germany with wolves.

Little Red Riding Hood, a familiar folk tale, was retold by the German Brothers Grimm.

Many werewolf stories have a connection to Germany in some way.

The silver bullet, even if it is not the weapon of choice by the werewolf hunter, will still be referenced – think the Argent family of werewolf hunters on Teen Wolf, who uses bow and arrow – argent being the French word for silver. Never mind that making silver bullets and shooting them accurately is extremely difficult. According to the legend, the werewolf hunter Jean Chastel killed the Beast with a blessed silver bullet. Twilight is a prime example of this dichotomy – but then there’s the Mercy Thompson series which has a better representation of Native characters.įrom the legend of the Beast of Gevaudan, the silver bullet has become synonymous with werewolves and the only way to kill them. What’s really unfortunate is the stereotype of the werewolf as savage (you don’t see many werewolves who are as suave as their vampire counterparts) and what that implies about why Native Americans are often used as werewolf characters. It’s odd, mostly because the mythology traditionally cited as what links them (the wendigo) has nothing to do with wolves, but about human cannibals. Unfortunately, yes, for some reason Native Americans are linked to werewolves much in the same way Transylvanians are linked to vampires.

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Or in the title: on my list of werewolf books I read, there’s Once in a Full Moon, Moonlight, Moon Called, Killing Moon, Wolf Moon, and New Moon. The only werewolf book I can think of that doesn’t discuss this is The Howling, which is mostly because it’s from the point of view of the victims.Įven if the werewolves in a novel aren’t beholden to transforming on the night of the full moon, usually the moon will show up in some nice purple prose. Often there’s also a beta, or second-in-command to the alpha. In more complex werewolf world-building, there’s also an omega (either the lowest of the low in a pack, or what is essentially the opposite of an alpha). Almost every single werewolf book I’ve seen has some mention of at the very least an alpha, or the leader of the wolf pack. I’m not talking the A/B/O stuff of fanfiction or werewolf erotica (if you don’t know what I’m talking about, consider yourself lucky). If you pick up a book about werewolves, you will most definitely find at least three of these things: Werewolves in fiction have yet to escape their many trappings and rules of their mythology. Isn’t this supposed to be about werewolves? The one thing they always do is drink blood. Vampires come in all different shapes and sizes: some follow the rules, others are clear rule-breakers.