Most of the werewolves in folklore, film and books are usually these monstrous and ferocious beasts that turn anyone unlucky enough to cross them into nothing but a pile of bloody pulp. But among the chaos and gore is one old folk tale of a sweet and kind werewolf.
The unique werewolves I am speaking of are the Galley Trots, also known as Wulvers, which come from the Shetland Islands of Scotland. The wulver is described as a normal man covered with short brown hair, but what is not so normal is that this man has the head of a wolf.
As long as the wulvers are left in peace they show no aggression to anyone. The best known stories about a wulver claim that it would spend its time sitting on a rock and fishing. That rock is still known today as “The Wulver’s Stane.” When the wulver was finished fishing it was known to leave some of its fish on the window sills of poor families.
But like most supernatural creatures, there are a few bad stories about wulvers as well. In some versions of the myth they were mainly associated with old burial grounds and ancient buildings. Their presence was once thought to indicate that valuable items or money was hidden nearby. There was also the belief that to see a wulver or galley trot was an omen of approaching death. In some parts they said they would only appear to sit mournfully outside the home of a terminally ill person.
Even those “bad” things pointed out above aren’t actually all that bad compared to other werewolf stories out there. Sometimes those stories of scary fanged beasts ripping bodies apart with their claws and then getting shot by a silver bullet get old. So it’s refreshing to have at least one old folktale about a helpful and compassionate werewolf.
- Moonlight
Just Myths…A silly old Story.
yeah, but it’s nice to know that someone out there was creative enough to take a monster and twist it into something different.
uh wow
Well it’s true I mean all you ever hear is us getting bad rep just cause we kill humans now and then, but alot of times that’s not our faults. We can’t control ourselves, it’s not like we chose this fate. It actually makes me a little happy that someone saw the other half of us. Though it’s not huge it’s there.
Oh, cool, are you a werewolf?
That depends on what u consider a werewolf to be. But I will tell u this I am just a trapped bloodthirty beast begging for the kill. And no matter how hard I try I just keep killing but the part that makes me sick is the fact that I enjoy it. I disgust myself. And no matter how hard I try to contain myself the inner animal forces me to just keep at it. If only death was as easy to bring to those who don’t truley deserve it. Evil doesn’t deserve death, they deaserve to live all eternity in suffering.
Maybe as a human saying this is a betrayal to my species, but I don’t think you’re evil. Its none of my business but you sound very sad and angry about what you are. Can I just say one thing? I don’t think its your fault. If you can’t help being what you are, even if you kill people, then I don’t see how its your fault. You’re not evil, that’s my opinion, if you don’t truly want to hurt humans. And out of curiosity, do people have to be bitten or is it genetic? I’ve always wondered.
do you know that saying “take a walk in someone elses shoes?” if you don’t it means to put yourself in someone elses position. If you were actually here With me tonight And I showed You what my life what my life was like without all the sugarcoating off movies and stories you would understand. I am just a hound of hell doing the devils bidding. I ripp apart innocent humans piece by piece but don’t do anything to stop. I try to control it but I can’t, I was not created to be controled. I was created souley for the purpose of being let go to roam and kill until there is nothing left. I am forced to do it so often but I don’t want to. I never asked to become this monster, I never deserved this beast. Now every step I take and every move I make I have to look over my shoulder. I have to cry in the shadows. I just want to be me but unfortunatlly my true me a huge murderous monster that kills and enjoys it. I’m not supposed to enjoy the thing I that makes me loath myself. It is my fault it’s my fault that I was at the wrong place wrong time.
hello my fello wolfs….dont mean to enter up but see humens will never learn or belive us ohh and btw im the white werewolf and i taught my self how to kill animals and things like that not saying i dont kill one every now and then but i dont like it
see im a werewolf and go after slow and weak humans they are easyer pray and i go after other humans that put up a little bit of a fight and i know we all get bad rep and i know we are built for killing humans and a few animals here and there but i sometimes like being what i am and im proud to say i am a werewolf and one day humans will belive us.
hey lisen i have tookin down biger things than a simple human like u and u humans are geting us mad and if u want a fight ill give u a fight im the bigest badest weewolf here and i will kill who ever steps in my way do u got that humans
If humans were being ripped apart as you said then the news would be all over it, but they aren’t. I don’t mean to be rude but if someone claims to be a werewolf or vampire they I question it, I don’t simply accept it.
Aw Moonlight,why’d you have to destroy the good talk? I was enjoying reading the way my fellow kin feels.
If she were telling the truth don’t you think she would have answered my questions? As I mentioned in a previous post, I am very welcoming and I love our readers BUT I do not like liars and I will question things.
Wow… i have never been this pissed off before… U people actually believe u are werewolves.. you think that u can get away with saying whatever the hell you want about how “you kill the fat slow people and sometimes go after the few that would give you A LITTLE bit of a fight” u know why u would go after the ones that wont fight you??? its because u couldnt do shit if someone actually tried to hurt u. Because if u were REALLY a Werewolf, then legend/lore/common sense would say that u could take out a freakin Moose/Elk/Deer with little to NO PROBLEM. and believe me… i dont know how often u nerds that believe you’re werewolves see daylight but Moose/Elk/ Deer are a lot harder to kill hands on than a human. THEREFORE I DARE YOU to kill someone that can actually fight u, and i know none of you WILL because like Moonlight said YOU ALL ARE LIARS and hate the fact u have no lives so u pretend u r something “Cool” like Werewolves…
hey wv if u dont want to beleve us then i can bet this u hardly ever read ur bible and if u want to say that we all are alike u are badly mistaken and u are ether fat or some one in ur famliy is fat so i do not care if u want to call me a liar and here is something elts i would beat to shit out of u if i ever seen u and u can act all big and bad on here because u know that we are stronger and faster and have more strenth than u so if u want to try and say we are geeks but lisen to me im a football jock so i would love to find u i am a werewolf and if u ever say any thing like this again ill find u do u got that