They knew when the wolves won because the horses mane wouldn’t be braided.
Anyway every year if the witch got to the stables the crops were horrible but if the wolves got to the witches beforehand the crops were glorious. However l do believe there are good witches as well. The next day their neighbors daughter was dying and had pitchfork holes in her stomach.
Well one night the witch got hers when the cat was struck with a pitchfork. She said there was a witch who turned into a cat and would harass the horses in the stables and quite a few times the horses mane would be braided.
My grandma would never let my dad or the other kids out in the woods at certain times of the year because of the wolves. My grandparents came over from Italy and they had told me quite a few stories. I like the (hounds of god) it makes sense to me. This is at least partly why God created us. We have human emotions and animal instincts, a lovely and intricate chiaroscuro of both wolf and human. We form stronger family bonds and have stronger protective instincts, and we appreciate simple things like a run in the woods or the beauty of moonlight or a soft breeze or the smell of rain. Like humans, we are created in God’s image, we love, we hurt, we hope, we grieve but we can appreciate the best things in life more than humans could. We are both wolf and human (and in my case, a whole boatload of other species too), so we can relate to both. I figure that we were created not only to fight demons because of our physical prowess, but because of our dual nature. I kept baring my fangs and clawing at the wall (she didn’t notice because she was so upset) and when I went back to that same wall later there were gouged in it like an animal had decided to sharpen their claws in it or something. Seriously, I came across one of my friends toward whom I have developed pack instincts while she was upset, and I was seriously tempted to find whomever had hurt her and claw their eyes out. So I was REEEEAAAALLY territorial, and that meant that any human who pissed me off would’ve been pretty much screwed if I hadn’t had more self-control.
Two full moons ago, you know, I was getting Full Moon Syndrome and all. Werewolves as guardians and protectors is definitely a new perspective.Īlthough, trust me, our animal sides are corruptible. I love the phrase “Hounds of God” for the werewolves, as opposed to the hellhounds of lore, Cerberus of Greek myth, or the Hounds of Hel of Norse myth. Though we have written about kindly werewolves before, it’s really very few times that werewolves are painted as the good guys, heroes, even blessed by God. But what person with a beating heart would condemn an 80 year old man to be burned at the stake? The judges must have took pity on him for being out of his wits, for they let him off fairly easy and only sentenced him to ten lashes. Of course, the judges were not exactly convinced. If it were not for the Hounds of God, this world would be overrun with demons and witches who would cause all mortals to endure unspeakable sufferings. He claimed that when the Hounds of God failed to keep the witches and demons in Hell, that this was the cause for the bad crop seasons, and that when the werewolves succeeded, that was why the crops flourished when they did. The werewolves would bravely descend into the very depths of Hell to do battle with the demons and the witches, preventing them from escaping into this world to wreak havoc on the Earth. Thiess claimed that werewolves were not monsters or agents of the Devil, but rather they were benevolent creatures of God, who he called the “ Hounds of God.” Their souls would ascend to Heaven when they died, and they were in the favor of God and worked tirelessly to defend the souls of the Earth with God’s blessing of the werewolf gift. Why would anyone in their right mind make such a claim in a time period of witch hunts, where those found to be serving the Devil would be burned at the stake or worse? 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. We’ve written about Thiess and the Benandanti werewolves and werewolf witch trials before, but there’s more to the story.