Chapter 121: Werewolves
Senior sister laughed when she heard me say Ah Lang, she said: "You think he is a wolf, but in fact, you guessed wrong, he is a person, but he is a werewolf, you don't know this, right?" Senior Sister smiled mysteriously and asked me to look Ah Lang up and down.
In fact, I can still accept science fiction things, for example, I once saw a report about Ererlang in a "Mystery" magazine. Werewolf is a kind of orc in Western folklore, and its image is widely used in various science fiction themes. Werewolves are extremely afraid of "silver". Werewolves hate anything made of silver, and the mere contact with the surface of their skin can also cause them pain, which can be used as a way to distinguish them from normal people. However, it is said that "even a person with a pure heart, a person who does not forget to pray at night, will inevitably transform into a wolf on a full moon night when the aconitum is in full bloom." As a result, legends about werewolves have been circulating since ancient times.
For nearly half a century, werewolves have undoubtedly become one of the hottest topics in Western mystical culture, this kind of monster usually looks no different from ordinary people, but on the night of the full moon will transform into werewolves, lose their reason and become berserk.
In modern times, there are many films and television works that often associate vampires and werewolves as each other's old enemies, but unlike the abyss-like and unfathomable image of vampires, the image of werewolves is often a combination of cruel, bloodthirsty butchers and loyal, brave warriors.
However, the origin of the legend of the werewolf is still difficult to trace, and the theories vary, and there is a lack of universally agreed origin. For example, in order to deepen the relationship between the two, the movie "Tales of the Night" wrote this background on the origin of werewolves: In ancient Europe, the plague broke out, and people died one after another, one called Alexander? The commander of the army of Kovinus also contracted the disease, but he was the only one who survived. There were 3 children in Alexander, but unfortunately two of them - Marcus and William, one was bitten by a bat and the other was bitten by a wolf, and only one was an ordinary person. Two brothers mutated due to the virus, one became the ancestor of vampires and the other became the ancestor of werewolves. Since then, werewolves and vampires have spread across Europe. However, this is only the original content of the movie, and the true origin of the werewolf is not yet known.
According to legend, there were also werewolves in Greek mythology. Legend has it that Lecaon was the king of Arcadia, the "paradise" of ancient Greece, and had many wives, fifty sons, and a daughter named Calisto. Some stories say that Lekaon was a cruel king, and some stories say that Lecaon was a good king, but his sons were ungodly. In short, Zeus was furious for his poor hospitality on his trip to Arcadia and turned Laikaon into a wolf. The Acadians were exiled in the eighteenth century and emigrated to the United States, living in southern Alabama and southeastern Mississippi with a mix of white, black, and Indian ancestry.
Although there are many myths and legends about werewolves circulating among the folklore, this theme has not achieved much in terms of literature and art, unlike vampires who have a "Vampire Count Dracula" as the cornerstone of modern vampires, the only one worthy of praise is Gail? Written in 1933 by Endoré in a book called "The Werewolf of Paris". The Greek concept of the living corpse changed from the 11th century. ETYMICALLY THE WORD VRYKOLAKAS COMES FROM A SLAVIC WORD MEANING WEREWOLF. So in the Balkans and the Carpathians at that time, people used the same word to refer to harmless zombies and dangerous werewolves. For example, on October 19, 1216 A.D., King John of England? Lakeland was poisoned by a monk and eventually died. It is believed that the poison contains wolf's head grass, meaning that the poisoned person will incarnate into a werewolf. Soon after, various howls were heard from his grave, and terrified residents dragged the body to decompose. Soon after, however, it was claimed that the werewolf king had been seen wandering through the forest.
(To be continued)