Chapter 124: The Phantom of the Moon
For example, in ancient China, the moon was very fond of using moonlight or wine to write poems, while in the West, the moon was sometimes associated with mysterious events.
So what is the moon? The moon has a huge impact on the environment and life on earth, and the ancients have long observed that tidal phenomena are related to the success and absence of the moon, and the change of the moon phase also affects many different animals, especially nocturnal animals.
Some animals reproduce during certain phases of the moon, while others change their predatory habits depending on the phases of the moon.
In ancient times, both Easterners and Westerners generally believed that the moon represented magic, so those creatures that moved during the full moon were often associated with magic or witchcraft in the human imagination.
In particular, wolves have a habit of howling at the moon, which has led Europeans to believe that wolves are mysterious creatures - the changes in the behavior of these animals may be one of the origins of werewolf legends, especially the rumor that werewolves transform when the moon is full.
A large part of the legend of the werewolf is about the wolf child. Since ancient times, there have been endless incidents of animals adopting human abandoned babies, and they are famous in ancient Roman legends
The story of the "she-wolf nursing baby", the motif of Rome today shows a she-wolf guarding and feeding two male babies.
Unfortunately, this beautiful legend did not work in the dark Middle Ages, because wolf children were raised by wolves, and they behaved and howled like wolves.
When these poor human outcasts fell into the hands of their kind again, they were immediately identified as devils, born werewolves, and in ancient Europe they became the strongest evidence of the existence of werewolves.
In fact, it is not only in Europe that there are legends of werewolves, but also in the ancient legends of the Indians in the Americas
The ability to "transform" can transform into wolves, bears, eagles and other animals according to the changes in the environment, or the needs of the situation, or to avoid the tracking of enemies and beasts.
Unlike in Europe, the sorcerer who turned into a wolf was regarded by the tribesmen as a hero with great powers, and of course, if he was unfortunate enough to arrive in Europe at that time, he would be charged with three crimes at the same time: barbarian, heretic, and devil.
Different legends and similar characters did not produce the product of a mixture, because later civilized Europeans conquered the Americas with the most barbaric means, and Indian civilization was largely wiped out.
With the prosperity of the West for hundreds of years, the bloody legend of the final European version of the werewolf has also spread all over the world.
Most of the werewolf images we hear and see today are produced in Hollywood, and although werewolves are native to Europe, they are promoted in American comics, movies, and television.
THE WELL-KNOWN PERVERTED SUPERMAN WHO LIKES TO WEAR HIS PANTIES OVER HIS PANTIES WAS BORN IN THE FIRST ISSUE OF ACTIONCOMICS MAGAZINE IN 1938, AND THE PROTAGONIST OF THIS ARTICLE WAS BORN IN THE HULK MAGAZINE ISSUE 180 IN OCTOBER 1974.
"American Werewolves in London" was a great success as a light comedy that narrated the horror theme of werewolves in a ridiculous tone.
Landis filmed "Innocent Blood" again, which is a description
The story of "French vampires in America". The film industry is a big business system that requires all kinds of films, and since then werewolves have become the darlings of Hollywood, and a series of werewolf-themed films have emerged one after another.
Although the new Hollywood film "Werewolf Army" is a low-budget B-grade film, it successfully relies on the old-fashioned plot of werewolf killing to create a tense atmosphere with tight rhythm and exciting scenes, which keeps the audience's nerves tense all the time.
There is no doubt that the protagonist of the film is a ferocious human wolf, and the filmmaker loves to fry cold rice the most, even if it is a bowl of leftovers that have been around since ancient Roman times.
Werewolves have a reputation for being vicious and play a negative role in film and television works. Werewolves even appear in the famous sci-fi television series The X-Files, only this time it is an Indian werewolf who makes waves in front of FBI agents Mulder and Scully, and the sheriff in the film says, "Maybe she (the victim) saw something that she wasn't psychologically ready to understand." "To be honest, I wasn't mentally prepared to see werewolves appear in a sci-fi TV series, but after youkai, vampires, and so on, I got used to it...... (To be continued)