It is said that humans can be turned into werewolves by having been bitten by another werewolf. Getting scratched is a questionable way of becoming a werewolf, but most don't believe in it. However, both of these only work if the werewolf in question is in wolf form.
Sometimes, if a werewolf dies in wolf form, he remains a wolf forever. But in other depictions, he immediately reverts to his human form. In these films, if you cut off a werewolf's paw, it can become a human hand before your eyes.
In European folklore, a werewolf is a man who turns into a wolf at night and devours animals, people, or corpses but returns to human form by day.
A werewolf first transformation is always extremely painful and slow; lasting over five hours and it is almost like torture. After the first change, the transformations become faster overtime but are always intensily painful.
Its name is associated with the mythical condition of lycanthropy, a supernatural affliction in which humans are said to physically shapeshift into wolves.
If werewolves and humans breed, the werewolf gene can sometimes transfer to the unborn child, but it is rare. This can be dangerous if the female is human. If the child does get the werewolf gene, then her pregnancy will be the 3 month gestation (like a werewolf's), which can harm both the mother and the baby.
Procedure. The cure is only possible in the early stages of lycanthropy and like with the vampire cure, it won't work if the werewolf has fed. The cure requires a partial syringe full of an unknown yellow substance drawn from a small medicine vial and the live blood of the sire.
Those who were born as werewolves or were bit very young don't reach full "wolf maturity" until they reach puberty, which is somewhere between the age of 11 and 14. When they reach that point, their body starts to change rapidly, their urges to transform start to show more and more, almost uncontrollably.
Triggering The Werewolf Gene
Furthermore, the werewolf gene must be "triggered" by taking the life of a living person or supernatural being, such as another werewolf.
The marking is the first step of the mating process. Werewolves through the marking where the male-wolf bites his mate in the place in between the shoulder and neck. Once the female is marked then half of the bond is completed.
Life Expectancy
The Average Werewolf lives around 1700 years, to 2100 years. The Oldest recorded Werewolf was 2327 years old.
We all know vampires are extremely strong and fast, but werewolves are faster and stronger and they have the advantage of being pack hunters - so rarely hunt alone.
Superhuman Strength: The original werewolves possesses superhuman strength, enabling them to lift (or press) about 2 tons in human form. While in their intermediate form, they are able to lift about 4 tons. Their more wolf-like form is somewhat more powerful and they are capable of lifting 7 ton.
Werewolf bites cannot kill an Original Vampire, as Elijah Mikaelson mentioned to Elena Gilbert when they were talking about how to kill Klaus Mikaelson.
There are characteristics that make werewolves special, and that allow a person to tell them apart from real wolves, such as the eyes, shape, and tail. When in human form, werewolves look and act like any normal human being, although they usually appear to be ill around nights when there is a full moon.
The "eastern" werewolf-vampire is found in the folklore of Central and Eastern Europe, including Hungary, Romania and the Balkans, while the "western" werewolf-sorcerer is found in France, German-speaking Europe and in the Baltic.
Werewolf relationships with their mates is a very strong bond, stronger than any human bond. Once a werewolf finds his mate, he marks her to let others know she is taken. This is done by him biting her neck, which leaves a mark forever.
There is a passive ability in the Werewolf skill tree called "Bloodmoon." This allows a werewolf to turn another player into a werewolf, once a a week, by returning to the werewolf ritual site. Make sure you have your Ultimate Ability "Werewolf Transformation" slotted and ready to go and turn yourself into a Werewolf.
According to the legend, Lycaon, the son of Pelasgus, angered the god Zeus when he served him a meal made from the remains of a sacrificed boy. As punishment, the enraged Zeus turned Lycaon and his sons into wolves. Werewolves also emerged in early Nordic folklore.
Violence, bad language
Extremely bad languages used, I was shocked as I sat down watching with my 6 year old daughter, she made wolf howling face and copied the rude words “…. sucker!…” etc, highly violence but addictive, it's so inappropriate for kids under 12 to watch.
Werewolves were said to be humans that turned into wolves during the full moon. The sophisticated culture of today perhaps modernized this myth to say that people only act like wolves during full moons, but don't actually turn into wolves.
In fact, a lot of individual vampire lore has roots in mythology and a lot of individual werewolf lore also has its roots in mythology, but popular lore and mythology doesn't suggest any type of rivalry between the two originating within mythology.
Can a werewolf mate with a human? A werewolf is a fictional creation. Most humans are real. So, a fictional werewolf could mate with a fictional human if that is what the author of the story needed them to do, but a fictional creature, no matter how sympathetic, cannot mate with a real human.
Or is it just in their wolf and hybrid forms? Are you talking specifically about the Werewolf creature, or something else? The Werewolf retains its immunities in all forms.
Congenital terminal hypertrichosis is characterized by the presence of fully pigmented terminal hair that covers the entire body. This condition is usually accompanied by gingival hyperplasia. This form is most responsible for the term "werewolf syndrome" because of the thick, dark hair that appears.