Fun fact: just about every werewolf legend contradicts all the other werewolf legends and should no more be taken as facts on the nature of the thing then the guy who drew a painting of a tiger with spots.Vuldari wrote:What you want something to be is an "opinion".Rhuen wrote:No one hates you for your Opinion.
Its how you present your opinion that is getting under these people's skin.
Its one thing to say, "this is how I interprit it"
its another to say, "this is the truth and that's that"
if you had said your piece and someone else said, "well to me its this" and you hadn't come back and basically said, "well no it isn't its this" then no one would have blinked twice in your direction.
Opinions are opinions not facts, and despite what ever research you may have done, it has no effect on how others have concluded themselves in this arena given their own experiences clearly.
So just dropping the idea of being right 100% would be a start.
Everyone is intitlted to their own opinion. Someone disagreeing with your view and having a different one is not a personal attack on you or your views. Its just a different view from your own and thats that.
But what someone in the past said something was is a "FACT". If a book from 1753 said one thing...the contents of that book and what it said are not open to interpretation. It says what is says, and it doesn't what it doesn't. That is how that legend/story as told by that person in that book went.
If the legend of the South Ireland Wolf-Beast of bastion (I made that up) describes the creature a certain way, and has been told that way for 300 years, it is a "FACT" that this is what the legend of the South Irish Bastion Wolf Beast was.
It is stories like that which were the inspiration for the genre we genre we are now involved with. Those are the "FACTS" which I think are being ignored, or carelessly re-written.
"I think Werewolves are much more interesting when they are like this" is an Opinion.
...but what kinds of stories were told most often in old Germany back when "Werwulf" first became a household word is not something that you can just make up for yourself. They told the stories that they told. Many of them have been written down, just as they were originally conceived. Are you really saying that it is NOT a fact that the texts taken from 'Deutchlands' archives of classical literature are an accurate, and confirmable representation of the stories they actually told?
Enough of this. Is anyone going to post something on topic, or is this just "Bash Vuldari" time now?
...maybe a moderator should separate this debate out of the topic into it's own thread, and then lock it if no one has anything more constructive to say that how much I annoyed them.
Peasants writing stories about werewolves each with their own twist is no more (fact) than anything someone makes up today.
Being older doesn't make it better or more (right).
I read these old myths and stories from around the world. They all are unique with little in common with each other except (man becomes wolf) that's about it.
In one we have a werewolf turning into a wolf with a magic belt and eating a whole horse and being so dumb he told his buddy what he did and was quikly executed.
another states that it can't become human again with out its human cloths.
Or become a wolf again with out the special pelt or salve.
We have them turning back to human if someone throws iron over top of their heads, and others that arn't harmed by anything.
Tailess giants that knock over carriages, small as dog ones, wolf that stands upright and has human eyes other wise no different than a wolf.
ect....and so forth....
Seeing as they don't really go together I say anybody today has just as much a right to do what ever they really want with it as they did.
(wolf/human) that's it thats the werewolf.