What’s Happening on Wizards of Waverly Place

A few weeks ago there was the big and depressing Wizards vs. Werewolves episode on Wizards of Waverly Place. After the episode we had a bunch of you begging for answers, hoping that everything with Mason, Alex, Justin and Juliet would be cleared up. Well I did promise to give you info once I had…

Bigby Wolf

Allow me to introduce Bigby Wolf; comic book hero, werewolf, and the somewhat human incarnation of the Big Bad Wolf. Bigby was also described briefly in our post about werewolf comics. Bigby is one of the main characters of Bill Willingham’s comic book series, Fables, which was first printed in 2002. Bigby Wolf was a…

Jacques Roulet: Werewolf, or Just Plain Crazy?

This werewolf story comes to us from a little town outside of Angers, France, and took place in 1598. It was at that time that two hunters came upon the dead body of a 15 year old boy. This wasn’t just a corpse though. The body was incredibly mutilated, surrounded and laying in its own…

Why I Love The Wolfman’s Emily Blunt

The beautiful Emily Blunt is making waves with her current flick ‘The Wolfman.’ Ever since her breakout role in The ‘Devil Wears Prada’ up to her recent Golden Globe-winning performance in last year’s ‘The Young Victoria’ – Emily Blunt has become the hot new star to watch. I think it’s about time to push those…

The Sad Story of Hans the Werewolf

During the famous Werewolf Trials in Estonia, there was one story in particular about a man who lived his life feeling as most werewolves do, I imagine – lonely and out of place in his own skin. This man came to be known as Hans the Werewolf, and he was an Estonian that was tried…

The Firebird and the Gray Wolf

An overlooked werewolf appears in the Russian fairy tale of Prince Ivan and the Firebird. Prince Ivan, the son of a powerful tsar, discovers that the Firebird is responsible for stealing golden apples from his father’s orchard. Prince Ivan hunts this Firebird, with glowing feathers. He is attacked on his path by a gray wolf,…

The Different Types of Shifting

Sure, werewolves can do lots of stuff. But can they do anything other than shift shape? I mean really, when you consider all that is in a werewolf’s realm of abilities, simply turning from man to wolf and back again can become quite boring. So, what else can they do? There are actually lots of…

Hounds of God

We’ve written about Thiess and the Benandanti werewolves and werewolf witch trials before, but there’s more to the story. In the late 1600s, 1692 to be exact, in Jurgenburg, Livonia, a very old man of about 80 years old, named Thiess claimed to be a werewolf. Why would anyone in their right mind make such…

Will Werewolves Kill the Vampire Craze?

The big question on the minds of many bloggers today is “can werewolves kill the vampire craze?” I have been wondering that myself, is it the time where the werewolves take over the vampires? Maybe, maybe not. The thing is, as kickass as werewolves are, they lack many of the elements that make vampires so…