Of Wild Werewolves and Witches A Natural History

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This is the true history of the Wild Werewolves and the Wood Witches. If you are seeing this then no doubt you are one of us but know that reading this binds you to an oath of secrecy. An oath that if broken will cost you no less than your life.

As Wild Werewolves we started out living deep in the forest with our wolf families, where we spend our whole childhood as regular wolf cubs, just part of a pack, no knowledge of our human form or human ways, until the first Wild Moon.

Wild Werewolves start out their lives as simple wolves.

The first Wild Werewolves started out life as simple wolf cubs and only find their human form on the first Wild Moon.

On the first Wild Moon, our hidden human form emerges for the first time, but only for the duration of the full moon.

For 72 lonely hours you would be separated from the pack for the first time. Cubs you once played with would be confused and angry to have a human among them. Some of them would even try to attack you. At first, the entire pack might shun you, refuse to take you back, even when the moon begins to wane and you regain your wolf form. Over time, your pack would probably learn to accept you back but would keep you at a safe distance. They would probably never fully trust you again and always remember the human smell. You could never be the alpha or even the beta. You would always eat last. And to win a mate, you would have to challenge the whole pack. There would be many other challenges and you would have to find a way to win the trust of the pack if you wanted to remain a member.

The problem is, in those early days, you wouldn’t be human long enough to learn human ways and customs. At first, all you know is how to howl and growl. You won’t even know how to dress yourself or where to find clothes. Understandably, this can get you into a lot of trouble in human society. As you can see, the earliest Wild Werewolves of yore got into a lot of trouble with both the wolves and the humans.

Unknown to these earliest Wild Werewolves, we were being studied. A Wood Witch known as Sylvana had been studying one Wild Werewolf, who came to be named Connor, for a long time. Sylvana saved Connor’s life twice. The first time she saved him from the rage of the pack when Connor fell in love with the Alpha’s mate and challenged the whole pack for the right to be with her. She took him in and healed him with her spells.

On the new moon, Connor returned to the forest to form his own pack but every full moon after that, he brought his children in their human form to visit Sylvana, who taught them how to speak and read and think like a human. Soon word spread among the wild werewolves and more and more Wild Werewolves began to come to Sylvana’s full moon school.

In exchange for this kind witch’s teaching, we the Wild Werewolves pledged to protect her and her kind. As the tree is your witness, you too will be obligated to take the oath. Acquit yourself heroically and you will find there is no better, freer, more magical life you can live. But fail to live up to your pledge and you will find the opposite, a life that is nasty, brutish and very, very short. Choose wisely and live well, young Wild Werewolf.

 

Friends Don’t Bite Friends – But What If You Do?

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Did you ever bite a friend by accident? If so, how do you tell your friend that he or she is going to turn into a werewolf on the next full moon? How does your clan deal with this situation? Are you responsible for your friend’s life now forever? Or does your clan demand that you go back and finish the job? 

An interesting question for yourlupinelife from SOS today. Seth writes:

Hail My Lupine Friends!

SOS just received an interesting message from a werewolf named Wild Moon. It appears that Wild Moon may have accidentally bitten one of her friends and wants to know how you handle the situation. How do you break it to somebody their human life is over? What is the etiquette here?

Thanks for any help you can give me. Keep on keeping on.

Seth

Interview With Bone Werewolf Archie Hartigan

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The Bone Moon – or Storm Moon as it is sometimes called – is rising in the Northern Hemisphere, so Lupine Life welcomed this email from our friend renowned supernatural expert Seth Greening over at Seth On Survival offering to share an excerpt of his recent adventures with a real life Bone Werewolf named Archie Hartigan. He promises us the full story will be out, “Soon. Ish.”

Seth Greening: First, what’s with the Twitter feed. I know you Bone Werewolves are not famous for your great howls, but are you telling me that you need Twitter to communicate now?

Archie Hartigan: Not exactly. It’s more just how me and my friends communicate.

Seth Greening: Your human friends?

Archie Hartigan: Mostly.

Seth Greening: Yeah about that. What’s with your friend Pete?  Why does he like oatmeal so much anyway?

Archie Hartigan: I don’t know if I’m allowed to say right now. You’ll have to clear it with him first.

Seth Greening: Okay okay I get it. Secret. Fine. Well then what can you tell me about your first transformation?

Archie Hartigan: Nothing much.

Seth Greening: Because it’s a secret?

Archie Hartigan: No because I don’t remember. All I remember is I woke up in a secure containment facility that looked like a hospital and my friends Pete and Nell told me they got it all on video. They made me watch it. At first I didn’t believe it was me. Then I thought it was a big joke they were playing because I didn’t even go full wolf, just like furious, drooling wolf-man.

Seth Greening: What finally convinced you the video was real?

Archie Hartigan: Raven.

Seth Greening: You’re friends with Raven? I know her! She’s a were-maid? Or mer-wolf who splits her time on the full moons between being a werewolf and a mermaid?

Archie Hartigan: No, I mean Raven, a bird. One just appeared and suddenly I could talk to her. It.

Seth Greening: Oh. What do Ravens like to talk about?

Archie Hartigan: Well they speak in poetry so sometimes it’s hard to figure out. But they land on your shoulder and talk right into your ear.

Seth Greening: That sounds pretty cool.

Archie Hartigan: Yeah. Anyway, because I couldn’t talk to ravens before the full moon I figured that maybe Pete was telling me the truth.

Seth Greening: So have you figured out how to control your transformations yet?

Archie Hartigan: Not 100%. Raven keeps bringing me things and I keep trying but so far I  can’t predict it. Will I be a full wolf? Or a wolf man? Or just like, have one paw that I have to hide in a sling until the full moon is over…? I never know.

Seth Greening: What do you mean Raven keeps bringing you things? What kind of things?

Archie Hartigan: Like all kinds of things. Pieces of string, something that looked like a pearl, a chicken bone… you name it. At first I thought they were all for me, all like, important objects. Then I figured out Raven was also trying to build a nest in the corner of the roof under my bedroom window. But she made it clear that she is looking for something called [insert incomprehensible bird sounds here]. It will help me control my transformations.

Seth Greening: Is there a human translation for that?

Archie Hartigan: Not really.

Seth Greening: Is it similar to the Eye of Ghicah’los that you just….

Archie Hartigan: Seth I warned you not to bring that up.

Seth Greening: Sorry. Sometimes I can’t help myself.

Archie Hartigan: Yeah. I noticed that. I just hope nobody heard you.

Seth Greening: Me too.

Archie Hartigan: I better go. The moon is almost full and Raven says there’s a Poe outbreak in progress. We have to stop it.

Seth Greening: I understand. I heard about that too. Thanks for stopping by SOS HQ tonight.

Archie Hartigan: Anytime. Keep on keeping on Seth.

Seth Greening: Thanks I’ll try. You too.

Look for more about the adventures of Archie Hartigan as told to Seth Greening on the next full moon… 

Lupine Life App for Real Werewolves Like You

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Are you wondering what kind of werewolf you might really be? Or facing a real werewolf and need to know more about who you’re dealing with? You may need The Lupine Life iOS app . Luckily it’s finally available now for your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad, free on the App Store.

Ever wonder what kind of werewolf your friend is?

As you may know there are many, many kinds of werewolves from many parts of the world. On this site alone you will find there are 13 Clans of werewolves who come from 13 different true werewolf histories from all parts of the globe. There are also 5 alliances that invite werewolves like you to study and grow their powers.

But there are many more and so this list and the true stories about them continue to grow. With the Lupine Life iOS app you can uncover your true werewolf identity and give you clues about the kind of werewolf you might become.

The Lupine Life mobile app also helps you keep track of the moon phase so you can plan your lupine life without wolfing out. Even if you are a werewolf who time travels like the Aeolian wolves and some members of the Oak Clan, you can know the lunar phase on the day you are going to and also the day you were born.

Lupine Life Lunar Phase Tracker

Special thanks to Seth G. from sethonsurvival.com for replying to our emails late at night when we had problems with the app and of course for his continued friendship of werewolves like us. He helps us all keep on keeping on! There’s lots more stuff coming up to the site and in the app so check back regularly. Also check out Seth’s site tonight for his Blood Moon Survivor of the Month Contest and more.

(Seth is also helping us now with a little bug in this first version of the app. If you have found it, thanks we are working on it now.)

Also stay tuned for the Frost Moon when there will be a special report from Seth himself in the app! One warning though, it’s a pretty long report. More of a book actually! Just what you would expect from the 4th biggest and 1st most long-winded supernatural survivalist on the Internet! (No offense, Seth.)

Ice Moon Werewolves Seek Key to Icy Universe

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Well the Ice Moon is rising but if you are an Ice Werewolf, chances are good you won’t be staying locked up for the next 72 hours. Not that you don’t want to hang out in your crib. It goes without saying that Ice Werewolves like you have the coolest cribs in chill locations around the globe.

(Some even believe that you crib on other icy planets, like Saturn’s ice moon Enceladus, see below. Enceladus is covered entirely by different forms of ice.)

Ice Werewolves know that ice is everywhere in the universe.

Ice Werewolves like you tend to build your cribs out of crystal materials on the dimensional cracks of existence. As a result your crib is translucent to prying eyes, almost invisible to outsiders,  while the inside is in a constant state of flux. In fact, depending on the time of year, your crystal crib could be huge, with 12 rooms or it could have only one big room. Until you understand the crystalline patterns of the icy universe, you never know how big your crib will be on any moon so be careful not to leave valuables inside! You might not see them for a whole a year!

Even more complicated, sometimes you – and the whole crib – will disappear too. Especially on the full moon, you will have a tendency to slip through the cracks of the crystal ice structure of the universe and travel through space and time.

This is because Ice Werewolves were among the first to discover this truth about the universe, how it froze into existence leaving these invisible ice-like cracks everywhere in space and time. Crack patterns that Ice Werewolves study and learn to manipulate.

Back when many scientists still believed that ice could only be found on earth, you Ice Werewolves knew the truth, that ice was everywhere in the universe. How the very structure of ice is the structure of the universe itself. The Ice Moonlight in your veins enables you to learn to “hear” the vibration of all the different kinds of ice and see the crystal structures and how to use them.

Before you knew that you were an Ice Werewolf, you might have wondered why you could chill people out or stop them cold in their tracks with just the sound of your voice. Or why even in human form, you could stand so still that other people couldn’t see you, even if you stood right in front of their eyes. Or you might have wondered if you could slow time and spent hours experimenting, staring at a clocks or people, trying different ways to slow them down.

Well wonder no more. To you Ice Werewolves, all of these things are possible, with time and study. Ice Werewolves were the founding clan of the Akasha Alliance and still count among the strongest members. Every year that you train with them, your powers will get stronger. You will learn all the different powers and structures of ice and how to use this to achieve your goals.

Just try not to make any enemies of Frost Werewolves. Don’t listen when the Frosties tell you to spend more time flinging frost darts and icicles and less time staring down the true structure of things. This rivalry is not helpful, especially when you actually have so much in common.

For more information on Ice Werewolves or the Ice Moon please click here or alternately please visit the werewolves page at sethonsurvival.com. 

Secret Moonlight Meeting of Oak Werewolves and Faeries

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Oak Werewolves and Faeries meet in the forest on the full moon.

The full Oak Moon tonight is a very special and dangerous time for Oak Werewolves. If you are an Oak Werewolf, you will be asked to journey to a certain tree, deep in the forest for a very special moonlight meeting. A meeting in the deepest, darkest part of the woods between Oak Werewolves and the faery folk who work together to preserve a magic flame.

For an Oak Werewolf like you, it will all begin with a secret signal from the faery tree. Remember that strange bracelet or keychain you have? It is probably made of wood or else it has a tree on it and maybe looks something like this one?

Oak Werewolves have an object or talisman like this one to help them.

Well can you remember where it came from? You can try to remember but chances are you can’t remember their face. Because it is a faery talisman that is given to Oak Werewolves like you. It is a very powerful talisman that gives you special powers, along with special responsibilities.

One Oak Moon like this one, the talisman will begin to glow with a signal from the faery tree.

Don’t be afraid when it starts to glow. As the moon waxes bigger and bigger in the sky above, the signal will grow stronger and your oak pendant will glow brighter.

This signal is from the faery tree telling the Oak Werewolves where to meet. You must travel to the meeting tree. You will run wolf at night and sleep in human form during the day.

As an Oak Werewolf, you must learn very quickly how to identify the best trees for sleeping before the sun rises. They may look small and cramped from the outside but if you can find the entrance, marked by a certain knot before the sun comes up, you will find a place inside that is better than the best hotel room in the world! There will be a warm hammock and all the hot chocolate you can drink. And in the morning you can have pancakes with tree syrup, the most delicious and filling breakfast you can have at this time of year. But no sleeping in! Remember you must get to the tree before midnight on the second night of the full moon. That’s when the secret meeting begins.

As you get closer and closer to the secret tree, your talisman will glow brighter and burn with a kind of cold heat on your skin. Don’t be afraid, this just means you are on the right path.

You will know that you have arrived when you see the biggest, oldest tree in the forest, full of faeries behind every branch, who wait for you with glowing eyes and shifting faces. Don’t be afraid of them. They can’t leave the tree. And besides, they are more afraid of you than you are of them. Faeries are terrified of werewolves. But they made this deal with your clan because you are the only beings on earth they will trust to help keep the flame of their warring world alive.

As an Oak Werewolf, you don’t help the faery realm alive because the faeries give you special powers. Although they do give you special powers. Powers you can channel with your talisman. But that’s not why you help them. You help them because you know that if their world is lost to the forces of cold and darkness, then our world will fall soon after.

One last thing. If you are a new werewolf and you have never made the Oak Moon journey before, you must not try to to it alone. You will never make it. You will get lost in the woods or freeze to death trying to find a warm tree to sleep in. You must make your first Oak Moon journey with an experience Oak Werewolf who will bring you on the moon of your first transformation. If you haven’t made the journey yet, be patient. It won’t be long!

For more information about Oak Werewolves please visit the Oak Werewolves page. For more information about fairies or werewolves please visit SOS at sethonsurvival.com.

The Frost Moon Gift

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One werewolf clan received an angel gift.    

If you have the free Lupine Life app, or if you are a Frost Werewolf yourself, then you already know the Frost Moon is rising high in the sky tonight and tomorrow night. But do you know the true story of how the Frost Werewolves first received this moon and its chill powers as a reward for helping the angels?

If not, then read on!

As everyone knows, angels and werewolves are mortal enemies. Or more specifically, fallen angels and werewolves are mortal enemies. But if you, like me, have been taught that a certain kind of werewolf was bred and trained to hunt angels – you need to know the real story. It’s the Fallen who hate us and started hunting us. But why?

Well start by thinking about it from a Fallen Angel’s point of view. Day by day the Fallen are forced to watch their wings turn black and fall off, feather by feather across the centuries as their holy powers fade. Year by year, their connection with the divine fades, and their souls begin to rot right along with their wings. A black gloom oozes out of them.

As a result, Fallen Angels try everything they can to preserve and resurrect their powers. How? Well lots of ways. For starters, they fight to defeat the Angels of Heaven, every opportunity they get. When they succeed, a Fallen will take the precious feather of light from the angel’s heavenly wings. When they lose, the Fallen is turned to stone until they can be freed, sometimes for centuries.

Fallen angels also scour the earth for special artifacts – a certain harp, a special trumpet, a bell. Anything mentioned in any prophesy, anywhere: the Bible, the Koran, the Kabbalah, any holy book will do when you are watching your soul light turn to black smoke minute by minute.

But that’s not all. Some Fallen Angels have even turned to science and employ some of the best scientists in the world specializing in wing replacement and gene therapy.

So you can imagine what the first Fallen Angels thought about us werewolves. How we can regain our powers every month and heal between full moons. How we can pass as human and live peacefully with them. How we can train ourselves to transform on demand and choose to do good, even those of us who have a curse. They hate us for that, and want to understand how to use our powers for themselves.

That’s the true story and the real reason that a certain Alliance of werewolves has dedicated their existence to fight the Fallen. Not the other way around. But this story is not about the Fallen. This story is about the Frost Wolves and how they got their moon and their powers.

Well it was this time of year when a new prophesy had Heaven and Earth talking. A heavenly baby was to be born to a simple couple named Mary and Joseph. The Angels of Heaven knew right away the Fallen would try to steal this baby or worse, stop this baby being born. Now protecting a harp or a statue is one thing, protecting a baby is another thing all together!

The Angels called a conclave to prepare for the fight. Their intelligence showed the Fallen would stop at nothing to get this baby. To make matters worse, the baby would be born at the darkest time of the year. Even worse, the couple would be traveling by donkey to Bethlehem, because of a census. Finally one of the Angels named Adnachiel, proposed a radical solution. What if they made a deal with the werewolves? Who better to help fight the Fallen Angels?

So a deal was made with a certain clan. The clan didn’t even ask for anything in return because more than anything, they wanted to see the Fallen defeated. From the shadows everywhere, an entire clan of werewolves escorted Mary and Joseph on their journey, day and night. It was werewolves who fought in the shadows to clear the way for the Angels of Heaven to sing their blessings and bring their gifts to the baby Jesus.

When it was all over, the angel Adnachiel thanked the clan and insisted they accept a gift from him. Expecting maybe a crappy sweater, the werewolves said okay, only to receive something truly incredible: the November moon and the powers of frost. Just remember, frost looks like angels’ wings, Adnachiel reminded them.

And that’s how Frost Werewolves became unsung Christmas heroes and friends of the angels forever. So if you are a Frost Werewolf, thanks for helping to save the first Christmas. Who knows what would have happened if the Fallen had got their hands on that baby.

Hunter Moon versus Blood Moon

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Halloween this year falls on the Hunter Moon, which is also known as the Blood Moon for a few very bloody reasons.

Read more about the Hunter or Blood Clan of Werewolves here.

The moon won’t be at its height on Halloween night like it will be in 2020 – but the Hunter Moon rises within 72 hours of Halloween, making it a true Blood Moon. Not a Blood Moon in the way that NASA scientists mean Blood Moon. To the scientist, a Blood Moon is a moon that turns red with sun fire during a lunar eclipse. To a lycan, the Blood Moon is that and something else too.

It's going to be a bloody Halloween either way.

It’s the night that all Hunter Wolves are called on to defend the world against the monsters who break through the veil of creation on Halloween. And the night when the rebel Blood Wolves will refuse to heed that call. Some of them will even end up fighting their brothers and sisters.

Let’s back up. Before the Hunter Moon was called the Blood Moon it was already pretty bloody. It brings the darker half of the year and marks the beginning of the long winter struggle against darkness and cold for all creatures in the Northern Hemisphere.

Hunters would use the October full moon light to stalk their prey at night. And animals would be slaughtered for eating in ritual ways that were meant to honor the dead, a kind of hunters’ apology for having to kill to survive. A thank-you ritual to the spirits for the sacrifice.

Well sometimes these rituals worked – and sometimes they didn’t. Sometimes they actually made the restless dead spirits angrier. A dangerous situation. Especially on Halloween. And especially if the Hunters Moon happens to coincide with Halloween. Halloween is the one night of the year when the veil between worlds is thinnest. Beings and monsters in other worlds wait all year for the right conditions to help them cross over on Halloween night.

We know that many different beings have indeed learned how to cross this veil, especially if the moon is full.  That’s why humans learned to wear a disguise, so other-worlders won’t recognize them as vulnerable humans. And why the Hunter Wolves promise to be out in full force, defending the world against the creatures who break through the veil. The Hunter Wolves train all year for this job and take an oath to defend the world on this night above all others.

At least that’s how things used to be. How they should still be. Unfortunately it’s not.

Nobody knows the name of that first hunter to kill a werewolf on the Hunter Moon but there’s a rumor that his story has been preserved and passed down by the Blood Wolves – along with his teeth and his bones. If you can find a Blood Wolf to tell you the true story, ask him. But fat chance getting a Blood Werewolf to talk to you. Especially on the Blood Moon.

All that is known for sure is that it happened on a Halloween Hunters Moon, much like this one A new, young genetic werewolf unexpectedly transformed in her village, alone. Her family was all out, racing with the Hunter pack toward a breach in the veil between worlds, preparing to fight back the beings to break through it:  netherworlders, shadow worlders or otherworlders. These beings have been called by many names throughout history.

The new werewolf stumbled out into the forest on her new legs, and that’s where it happened – a human shot her. Killed her on the spot with a silver-tip arrow. Some even say it was one of her friends, trying to hunt with the adults on the Hunters’ Moon.

When the girls’ family returned to the village at sunrise to find her body in the woods they vowed to separate from the village and from the Hunter Wolves forever. They stopped defending the world and made their own clan, the Blood Clan, dedicated exclusively to self-preservation from the enemies they see everywhere, all the time. Now they claim the Hunter Moon as the Blood Moon. They don’t take the Hunter Wolf vow to protect the earth on Halloween and all year around from shadowy being bent on destruction.

Some whisper that the Blood Wolves may even be trying to help bring about this destruction.

So whether you celebrate the Hunter Moon or the Blood Moon, it’s sure to be bloody Halloween out there either way. Between fighting for the worlds’ survival and stocking up for the long winter, check back for the launch of our new werewolf app. Thanks Seth – and Graham too –  for helping us to finish it. Your Lupine Life app should be up on the iTunes store for free on Halloween.

Also we hope you’ll stop by Seth On Survival on or around Halloween. There’s sure to be a Survivor of the Month prize along with more helpful tips for your ongoing survival.

What Makes the Harvest Moon Sing?

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How did the Harvest Moon become the Singing Moon?

Well the Harvest Moon is on the rise and Singing Werewolves everywhere prepare to howl for the next three nights straight, celebrating their moon.

If you aren’t a Singing Wolf, you may be wondering, why is this moon, referred to by half the humans on Earth as the Harvest Moon better known as the Singing Moon among the lupine kind?

You’ll find the answer lies in the history of farmers and werewolves of yore.

As everyone knows, the Harvest Moon is the bright low-hanging moon rising over the farmers’ fields tonight, when the farmers race to bring in the crops before winter. It’s also the equinox, when the nights have begun to stretch out and steal the farmers’ valuable daylight once again, making it harder to finish the harvest.

Over these ancient fields, the Harvest Moon rose like a big orange nightlight to help the farmers see their work. By Harvest Moonlight, the farmers could work all night, as long as they could stay awake.

This is where the singing part comes in. In the days before coffee and energy drinks, these overworked farmers had to do something to stay awake. And the werewolves who lived among the farmers used their unique vocal powers to help out in this unusual way, by using their deadly howl in song. The werewolves sang to the farmers, “talking” to them and keeping them awake.

Scaring them awake, some would say. Some thought the werewolves were singing down the moon. Others farmers understood that the werewolves were trying to help, not trying to cause the moon to crash into the earth and they began to sing along. Some farmers even started leaving out big bowls of grain for the werewolves to thank them and keep them near.

Even the humans who didn’t really understand, could see that there was a kind of harvest peace between the species that needs to be respected. That’s why among rural werewolves, it’s still a tradition to greet the new Singing Wolves and join the farmers on their Harvest Moon or as we call it, the Singing Moon.

So if you are a Singing Wolf, have a happy howling harvest moon and enjoy your bowls of grain! You can read more about the Singing Moon here.