Modern Day Werewolf Essay

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Do werewolves exist? According to eleven-year-old Heather Bowey, a werewolf chased her at about four-thirty pm while she was on her way home from sledding with her friends in 1990. They were walking near Loveland Road, which is about a mile and a half away from Bray Road, when she saw a large dog walking along a creek in a cornfield. Heather and her friends assumed it was a dog, so they called it to them. The creature noticed them and stood up directly on its hind legs, but it seemed unaccustomed to walking on them so it dropped down on all fours and charged the children. Without doubt Heather says that the creature was able to leap “a bigger leap than dogs run.” Afterwards the group ran away but the creature followed them two hundred and fifty yards before veering away (Gatto). Many different media sources embellish the existence of werewolves as thought by many people throughout the world even though skeptics say they are fictional. The common day werewolf is better understood after examination of its origin, conventional description and …show more content…

Jean was French and lived near the village of S. Antoine de Pizon. (Otten 62). Jean stated that a man by the name of Pierre Labourant gave him his ability to wear his “wolf skin” (Otten 62). Jean claims that Pierre gave him a “wolf skin cape” that he puts on him every Monday, Friday, and Sunday for an hour which turns him into a werewolf (Otten 64). Jean was described once with, “The complexion was of a dark olive color; the teeth were strong and white, and the canine teeth protruded over the lower lip when the mouth was closed. The boy’s hands were large and powerful, the nails black pointed like birds’ talons. He was ill clothed and seemed to be in the most abject poverty” (Otten 63). In fact Jean once said himself, “I have killed dogs and drink their blood but little girls taste better, their flesh is tender and sweet, their blood rich and warm” (Otten

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