[ SECRET POST #2867 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2867 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Tangentially related am I the only one who thinks it's strange that the guys in teen wolf aren't hairier. I mean they are wolves you would expect some chest hair.

[(Anonymous)]

I think there's actually a strange version of the werewolf myth where you're supposed to look for strangely hairless people in the human form (as in, things like no eyebrows, or chest hair, not necessarily bald), because their hair is inside their skin as the wolf's fur. If you cut a suspected werewolf, you'll see the fur inside the wound.

[(Anonymous)]

I am both facinated and disguted anon.

Still wouldn't work for teen wolf though. They don't really get hairier when they transform.

[(Anonymous)]

If you cut a suspected werewolf, you'll see the fur inside the wound.

Blearrghh! That is a gross idea. I hope I never meet (and wound) a werewolf.

[ginainthekingsroad]

I'd actually really like to see that in use in some form of media. Do you have an example?

[(Anonymous)]

I think I first came across the idea in Fred Vargas' Seeking Whom He May Devour, one of the Commissaire Adamsberg crime novels, but it's been a while so I'm not completely sure. At least part of the idea (the fur-in-the-wound part) is folklore, however, according to Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werewolf#Characteristics

[(Anonymous)]

In Webster's The Duchess of Malfi (1612) one of the villains becomes convinced he's a werewolf, and the interesting thing about it is that it's treated as a mental illness; his doctor says:

In those that are possess’d with ’t there o’erflows
Such melancholy humour they imagine 12
Themselves to be transformed into wolves;
Steal forth to church-yards in the dead of night,
And dig dead bodies up: as two nights since
One met the duke ’bout midnight in a lane
Behind Saint Mark’s church, with the leg of a man
Upon his shoulder; and he howl’d fearfully;
Said he was a wolf, only the difference
Was, a wolf’s skin was hairy on the outside,
His on the inside; bade them take their swords,
Rip up his flesh, and try.

[ginainthekingsroad]

Oh damn, you're right! I've totally read that, but forgot that part of the story. Great reference, anon. *Jacobean lit high-fives*