Werewolves vs. Vampires

Vampire_werewolfIf you’re here then I think it’s safe to assume you love werewolves. Am I right? But do you love vampires as well, or are you pretty anti-vampire like most werewolf fans are? Vampires and werewolves hating one another isn’t anything new. It’s an age old feud known by all. You have movies like Underworld, books like Twilight and Anita Blake and so forth all showing either a strained relationship between the two species or full out hatred. But believe it or not guys, vampires and werewolves share a few similarities.

First off, like vampires, werewolves also caused mass alarm in Europe during the 1500s and onwards. Back then people were terrified of becoming a vampire, they did all sorts of insane things to corpses and went all out to prevent vampires from coming into being, there were even “experts” that wrote multiple pamphlets on the subject to inform the people about these supposed vampire infestations. The same deal went down with werewolves as well, people feared werewolves in the same way as they feared vampires. Fun fact: there were nearly thirty thousand cases of lycanthropy reported between 1520 and 1630.

Then there was this old belief that someone that was a werewolf in life would then return as a vampire once they died. All due to being ungodly and having a cursed soul and all that not-so-good stuff. Because of this, in Slavic territories (as well as a few others), many names originally used for werewolves eventually came to be used for vampires (vrykolakas, vukodlak, vurkodlak and volkodlak). In France, demonologists wrote of an unique kind of werewolf called the loublin. This werewolf was found in cemeteries, digging up corpses and then eating them. Werewolf myths like this were found all around the world, along with vampire myths as well. In Montenegro, there was a belief that all vampires must spend time in wolf form. In Greece, anyone that ate a sheep that had been originally killed by a wolf would become a vampire.

Vampires and werewolves may hate each other in entertainment but in history and mythology they have many ties to each other. The compatibility of the two was even examined by Ronald Chetwynd Hayes in his story “The Werewolf and the Vampire” (1975).

– Moonlight

By moonlight

One of the writers for werewolves.com, as well as vampires.com.

148 comments

  1. Awesome art! In a fair fight, I’d put my money on the werewolf. Bigger, stronger, more ferocious, with a longer reach and sharper claws. Sure, vampires have supernatural abilities werewolves lack, but it’s hard to believe their mind-control powers would be effective against a rampaging lycanthrope. And the vamp’s fabled shapeshifting abilities won’t be of much help — the scariest animal they typically turn into is a regular wolf, which makes the match even at best. Say the bloodsucker is lucky enough to fight to a standstill and flies away in bat form. There’s a good chance that in the daylight, the wolfman will hunt him down and stake him in his sleep!

  2. Hi:
    A normal werewolf can kill 20 normal vampires and Elder Vampires are as strong as any werewolf but there is more when it comes to antediluvian vampires and their second in command Vampires(they have special name which I forgot and they lived more than 1000 years)the story is different.
    while other creatures only can use power of Darkness antediluvian vampires are Darkness and Abyss itself.Count Dracula is an expectational vampire who has the same power as antediluvian vampires forget about movies they reflect nothing but only a small part of Vampires power.
    See Helsing Ultimate OVA Alucard(Dracula) is there and you can see the real power of Vampire their ability is not just mind control Vampires have unimaginable magical powers such as Obtenebration the ability that command the horrifying Darkness in the Abyss.
    Count Dracula and antediluvian vampires are the most powerful beings more powerful than any god it is completely impossible to kill an antediluvian vampire.
    Arman Taraggiy Oskoiy
    Not: I love Vampires more than any one in this world as I said Vampires are Darkness itself.

    1. wow its really heating up in here!!! the point is everybody has a saying in this and its good ya’ll exercice your freedom of speech lol anyway wern’t we talking about werewolves and vampires????? wat i think is they are powerful at the same level and the bad thing is there is a donament side to both….. so wat do ya’ll think????? furry beasts or bloodsuckers???? ////////// thenn again its not our chice im not saying i believe and in not sayin i dont but lets face it humans are incharge….so lets worry about this stuff when it happens…OK!!!!!! i mite come back tomorrow goodnight!!!!!!

      1. i think between a night wimp bloodsucker and a powerful and domenent beast in a fair fight i’ll go wit warewolfs all day!!!!!!!!!!!!

  3. have you seen a werewolf before……… just walking around i dont think sooo.. if werewolves ruledm the world we wouldnt be here we would be in their stomachs being digested…this is not twilight people vampires dont sparkle they burn up and werewolves arnt cute and fuzzy there rabed and ugly and vampires are old and dead and dont have a heart plez like a vampire would fall in love with people and not drink your blood we ARE REALTY!!!!! im not saying i dont believe but still……

  4. Hi
    As kleetheen said Vampire are old,cold,dead,heartless ruler and kings of Darkness They are beings even beyond imagination and I do love them in that way. They are Abyss and Darkness itself what else I can say I do love them because they are death itself too.
    Arman(Darkness)

  5. were wolfs are the best there is if i were a were wolf i will kill all of the vampiers
    in the world and have freedom for all were wolfs for ever

  6. man i luv werewolves . 1 werewolf is enough to kill more than 20 vampies . vampires are like polite gentle innocent blood suckers . on the other hand look at the werewolves , they are the savage deadly huge ruthless killers. surely the werewolves rule

  7. Wow, it’s great to know that those are steriotypes!! :) I know about the real wars of today between VAmpires and werewolves!!!! BC of one thing. BUt i am not going to say that!

  8. This is to kalloljit, Vampires are faster, more furious, and so much more Suductive. WE Love to hunt you werewolves, because for one, you kill us!!

  9. but werewolves are not like that ether they are not killers they have territories that shouldntbe crosed but if crosed then u get attacked its plain and simple as that….

  10. jazmine…vamps. kill humans and we kill you is that not clear enough….werewolves need the humans for a reason and if vamps.kill them then wut are werewolves going to do
    ??? they need them and yall dont yall can go die off the planent for all i care but as long as werewolves are here their will be no suckers like YOU…..and werewolves are faster FYI.. ;) have a great day… :P

  11. hi umm my boyfriend is a lycan and hes friends with a vampire. Actually im a newborn lycan but im still friends with the vamp. hes really cool and he teaches me stuff that my bf cant like how to heal others from a vamp bite and things. but i just wanted to say hi…ok byee
    RAWRR-aleXas

  12. I’m a alpha-werewolf but I’m still young so I”m still in training. Alphas are usually weak in childhood but strong as adults. The ranks of most packs are alphas, elders. betas and then norms which are just normal werewolves.
    Alpha Werewolves and Elder Werewolves can easily beat vampires if there are enough of them.
    I don’t know how vampires operate but maybe an elder would be a fair match for us.

    My pack is nonexistance now and I am the only one but so far I have claimed part of Texas and Oklahoma. Any other pack there is on my pack territory and once we grow large enough, will be delt with. You don’t want that so . . .

    1. yes :) yes they are good luck on your new and great adventure into the grown world of the lycans i know you will do well.. for you seem wise and mature

  13. im back :) :) did ya’ll miss me….. probaly not anyways all of yall are pretty smart right… yes yall are so dont lose ya’lls grip to reality yes their is a posiblity that this is all true but then their are people that take it to a whole’nother level… becarful cause once you go down that road their will be no turning back theirs a two way path the one way patha and the multi path
    make a wise decision and if i was yall i would pick the multi path with other new and smart decisions cause one good decision leads to another ;)

  14. Number one vampires and werewolves don’t hate each other they actually are good friends. And no one really new about vampires and werewolves. So this is all fake!

  15. It’d be real interesting to see a were-vamp hybrid like Micheal from Underworld through an entire film or book series. They would have all of their strengths but none of their weakness’ just like Blade.

  16. I LOVE VAMPIRES AND I THEREFORE LIKE TO READ AND WATCH MOVIES ABOUT THEM.BUT WEREWOLVES DON’T WORTH IT.

  17. So I like vamps and werwolves but I mean….come on reality comes in sooner or later..sure its fine to be imaginative and read books and watch movies..but that intertainment….not real! But ok ok believe what u wish….I mean yea sure it would be cool to be a vampire….or a wolf…but face it we r human..shouldn’t y’all be in school learning and wanting to grow up to be a dr. Or police officer?…not doing this?…

  18. Pretty hard blood drinking vampire vs. a lordly beast. I’ll go with werewolves! Vampires are pretty cool n all, but werewolves rule this nation and this world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  19. PRETTY HARD A BLOOD SUCKING VAMPIRE VS. A LORDLY BEAST WEREWOLF!!!!!!!!!!!!I WOULD HAVE TO GO WITH WEREWOLF,VAMPIRES ARE COOL N ALL, WEREWOLVES RULE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  20. dashawn coleman werewolfs rule !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! u suck like the vampires haha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  21. i dont know that either the vampires or werewolves exists in the world . but when i read the books and study about that superpowerful things , i loved the character of vampires

  22. wow, has it been a year already :D well anyways I was just checking on the site this fine 11:20 at night.And read most of the comments, and so far Black_Angel is right in a notion. To tell you the truth the whole rise of lycans and vamps. are makeing me feel lathargic -.- But ya know what..be who yall want to be..its not like we can stop you..play in your dreams and fantasy world why you still can..I miss the days when i could, im 16 and i know this better than half of the 20 and up adults <..> well.ill be back on in a wile or maybe even next week see ya :DD

  23. I love vampires that’s very intrastinng part of my life… iwant to know about that.. if any one help me I’m v thank ful to u.. thnxxx

  24. honestly both sides have great strengths and weaknesses. i am very pro Lycan and i have a distaste for vampires but there is a sense of respect. Though i respect them i freakin hate the whole Twilight screw up of both of them. ANY guy that sparkles at any time is not considered a vampire, but a faggot lol and the movie made werewolves look like oversized wolves :/

    But anyways, in a fight, u want a good example? Go check out the movie Van Helsing. Its a close fight but it is obvious who would win. Lycans would not be affected by any of the vampire mind tricks and about all that they pull from darkness, i looked it all up. couldnt find any suggestion or even a hint to it. so who would win the fight? Lycan has got the fight made. They are faster, stronger, and a hell of alot more tougher than any vampire who has lived forever and not used to having to fight for its life.

    Another good point is that there are not enough references of vampires being singled out and killed compared to the mass killings of the werewolves. makes ya wonder huh? shows who is more of the threat ;)

  25. werewolfs are the most stupid creature in the world but i must tell that vampires are strong cool powerful ruler of the world and verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyyyyy sexy !!!!!

  26. vampires are far more better than werewolf cause they are stupid idiotic smelling dogs i am a vampire and i had a boyfriend whom after two days of our relationship came to know that i was a vamp and he was a werewolf and we had a fight and as usual i won by the way my age is 1157 i am the youngest in the family.

  27. vamps are so dum who would like to go out side for some air and die.and i am a 8 year old girl who is a werewolf.try to compet with this cute face! and vamps are stuped.

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