Over the course of the last few hundred years, werewolves have become and remain a prominent piece of Western Culture. Werewolves have been featured in hit motion pictures and been the main subject of various books and stories. Werewolves are dim and animals that terrify individuals on many different levels. While they are the possibly the most vicious and hardhearted beasts that horror stories have brought into the world, there is something about the werewolf that some can relate to. Not just can the characters distressed with the condemnation be relatable to the individuals who are experiencing amazing injury in their lives, yet some can likewise relate to the werewolf as mammoth and an abhorrence power. The werewolf is typical of the fiendishness …show more content…
These people proceed on a way of torment, apprehension, and self-hatred until the day it is found that they are the beast that has been the reason for some missing villagers in the region. It is then and at exactly that point that their wretchedness is at last put to an end as they are guillotined, blazed at the stake, or hung, contingent upon the execution spending plan of the town board. The apprehension filled existence of these people was in all likelihood motivated by casualties of a greatly uncommon mental issue, clinical …show more content…
Be that as it may less consideration has been given to clinical lycanthropy, a condition that, albeit uncommon, does happen. It is felt that in clinical practice, numerous cases are missed in light of the fact that psychological wellness experts are inadequately mindful of the presence and the uniqueness of this issue. Along these lines, the condition is by and large thought to be a strange representation of another issue, for example, schizophrenia, bipolar issue or serious melancholy. In assessing every one of the 56 instances of preposterous transformation into creature, Blom found that 25 percent of the patients were diagnosed with schizophrenia, 23 percent with crazy sorrow and around 20 percent with a bipolar issue. Among the patients, 34 were men and 22 were ladies, and their manifestations endured anywhere in the range of one hour to decades. The principal case provides details regarding clinical lycanthropy was distributed in 1852 and depicted a man admitted to a haven in Nancy, France, who was persuaded that he had transformed into a wolf. To show this the man separated his lips with his fingers to go on the defensive, and he whined that he had cloven feet and a body secured with long hair. He said that he just needed to eat crude meat, however, when it was given to him, he declined it on the grounds that it was not sufficiently
To achieve this goal, I have organized my paper into four main sections. In the first section, I provide an account of what happened during the 17th century Salem Witch Trials. In the second section, I explain what happens during the existence of ergot of rye in a human and the effects it has on people. The third section includes an explanation of what community rye was during the Salem Witch era and what it did to each victim. The fourth section concludes the paper.
In Night, he informs his reader of many examples on how a myriad of good people turn into brutes. They see horrific actions, therefore, they cannot help by becoming a brute. They experience their innocent family members being burned alive, innocent people dieing from starvation due to a minuscule proportion of food, and innocent people going to take a shower and not coming out because truly, it is a gas chamber and all f...
Carlson begins her study with the theory that the afflicted among Salem's residents exhibited symptoms identical to those of individuals infected during the worldwide epidemic of encephalitis lethargica of the 1920s. She insists that "victims had nothing to gain" from coming forward to make their accusations, so that their torment must have been real; a bold statement, but one based on the author's opinion alone (27). Carlson tends to dismiss or simply fails to mention any material that does not neatly fit her theory. Any evidence that points to the fact that the afflicted girls were anything more than hapless victims of a virulent disease is not addressed. In fact, there is quite a bit of material from the testimonies produced at the trials of reputed witches that raises doubts about the accusers. But, Carlson sees cle...
The next theme used by the author to inspire a feeling of despair in this story is the randomness of persecution. By making the villagers draw these slips of paper once a year would provoke a feeling of hopelessness. Because they know that no matter what they do one day they may be subjected to this brutal death. And it woul...
Morgan, J. The biology of horror: gothic literature and film. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002.
In “The Lay of the Werewolf,” by Marie de France, the main character Bisclavaret is betrayed by his wife. Bisclavaret had a secret that he never told anyone before, including his wife. He would go away for three days every week and would never say where he was going. This upset his wife; assuming the worse that Bisclavaret was cheating on her. She cried in his arms begging him to stop leaving her and her mourning convinced Bisclavaret to share his secret with her. The secret he spoke was that he had to leave for those three days because he turned into a werewolf. He left all civilization so while he was in the werewolf stage he would not hurt anyone. He also told her about the secret hallow stone near the chapel where he would leave his clothes. If his clothes were not there when his three days were over he would be unable to return back to his human form. After he revealed his secret he kissed her goodbye, hoping to see her after the three days. What Bisclavaret did not know was that his wife was cheating on him with a noble knight. Once Bisclavaret left; his wife told her new lover Bisclavaret’s secret and he stole the clothes from the stone; trapping Bisclavaret in his werewolf form. Bisclavaret mourned over the events that had happened, but soon was blessed with living with the king and serving as his protector. He served his king better than any other knight. He sought his revenge on his wife and her new lover when they arrived at the castle to visit the king. Bisclavaret attacked his wife, ripping off her nose, and her new husband. One of the wise counselors approached the king explaining why Bisclavaret would do these things to the King’s guests. The wife admitted to everything and they were banished from the land of Britt...
I had been in the village for all but a week when I realized there was something... wrong. There seemed to be an underlying atmosphere of fear and animosity. Of course, with my wide-eyed, innocent thinking at the time, I assumed the presence of Satan had damaged the townspeople 's trust of one another. Again, I blissfully accepted this, and I was wrong.
With the typical mystery novel falling between the common outline of victims and an unknown criminal that is painted in a dull and consistent palette of predictability, every single character in this storyline is a criminal but also a victim of their own guilt. Rather than exploring the mere surface of leveled justice, a deeper meaning of the concept is reached as death is doled out in an order of increasing guilt; those who are less guilty die towards the beginning of the purge to evade the anxiety and panic that haunts one as they continue their trek and witness their fate. Evading the governmental justice system before, the characters are emotionally tortured as they succumb to their thoughts and
This simple short story bleeds into the minds of its readers, and mixes into our perception of the world we know today. Eventually, the reader begins to connect the thought process and ideologies of the mentally deranged villagers within the story to those who exist or existed within the real world. We begin to peel away at our own society, and see that the same way of thinking which spawned these lotteries, held within the fictional world, may have counterparts in the real world, which is the truly perturbing fragment of this story. While each person who reads this tale...
Over the past several hundred years, werewolves have been an important part of Western Cultures. Werewolves have appeared in blockbuster movies and been the subject of countless books and stories. Werewolves are dark and powerful creatures that terrify us on multiple levels. While they are some of the most violent and merciless monsters that horror has to offer, there is something about the werewolf that we can identify with. Not only can we identify with the characters afflicted with the curse, but we can also identify that the werewolf is a beast and an evil force. The werewolf symbolizes the evil that is contained within us all. In this paper, I will explain the different evils that werewolves symbolize by taking a critical look at the real life history of the werewolf, the werewolf in literature and film, and the opinions of experts on the topic.
Fathers, mothers, wives, and children may be seen lying under these scaffolds, prostrated upon the ground with their faces in the dirt, howling further incessantly the more piteous and heart-broken cries and lamentations for the misfortunes of their kindred; tearing their hair - cutting their flesh with knives, and doing other pence to appease the spirits of the dead, whose misfortunes they attribute to some sin or omission of their own, for they sometimes inflict the most excruciating self torture.
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).
Jack Morgan, The Biology of Horror: Gothic Literature and Film (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002) null03, Questia, Web, 29 May 2010.
Next, we shall travel from town to town along the countryside, since there it is said where all the illiterate reside, and rescue them from the terror that haunts all the citizens of these towns. Now you might say that you never heard of any towns suffering from such evil which need rescuing and you are correct.” Agolante takes a moment’s pause to enjoy the dumbfounded looks upon his brothers’ faces and then continues: “This is where we, the Rite Brothers, come into play. We shall camp out of each town and use our newly found acting talents along with the props to produce the greatest show any of these people have ever seen; that they shall believe it is true. Where in one town it is a witch who flies on a broom through the night sky with a nasty laugh and in another it is a werewolf prowling the streets at night looking for children to prey on. Whatever the case may be, the possibilities are endless and they all shall strike such fear and terror into the hearts of these townspeople that they shall seek any way to relieve them of such a calamity. My brothers, we shall be their
In the past werewolves were blamed for some killings that people just couldn’t figure out. The Werewolf-idea probably has its origins from the prehistoric hunters who use to wrap themselves in hides, made by the skin of a wolf. In mythology, a werewolf is believed to be human with the ability to shape shift into hybrid wolf-like creature, and there is usually a curse involved. There is much we don't know to be completely true, especially because the legends have evolved over time. They're several legends dictating the origin and creation of werewolves, but only a few can tell the truth behind these lycanthropes.