III. Other approaches werewolf
Many explanations were advanced underpins attempted to unravel the mystery of the werewolf. Witchcraft and Devil's intervention were the most widespread in the Middle Ages had the great belief in religion and therefore parallel to the forces of evil. Scholars have also examined the issue and early thirteenth century, Gervais of Tilbury proposes that the act had to some shock and lunation. The atavism, or inheritance, an explanation would also widespread. a. Rational and scientific explanation
With advances in medicine, a disease could define these people turn into wolves, or at least into something similar. Recognized in 1682 by an edict of Louis XIV, lycanthropy, a person would be the victim of delusions that do believe it is transformed into a wolf or other wild animal. The person behaves like a wild beast, attacking humans and animals to feed upon them. Cases of feral children have also been listed. In the early seventeenth century, Jean Grenier a boy of thirteen years is accused of being a werewolf. Suffering from a mental disability, he lives in the forest as a wolf and have a facies approaching canids. He attacked dozens of people, and claimed to have eaten several children. Held, it is sent to a monastery had his young age. There he always behaves instinctively and despite some improvement will always keep track of its state of werewolf.
b. The figure of the werewolf in the arts
Being mystery, the werewolf raises many questions and the arts would take possession quickly.
A figure so popular could not pass to score the film or literature. The first film to be made on the werewolf is The werewolf Henry McRae in 1913. It follows a long series, whose most famous are among other Howling Joe Dante (1980) and American Werewolf in London by John Landis (1981) or The Company of Wolves by Neil Jordan (1984 ). Wolfman will be released in February 2010, a film by Joe Johnston, which shows that the craze for the werewolves is always present.
On screen, the moment the most anticipated is the processing step that fascinates and disgusts at a time. For American Werewolf in London is the main stage, we all see and that takes time, moreover, while in Howling , big plans are made and does not reveal everything. This mystery of metamorphosis haunts and adapts according to personal tastes. This applies even in contemporary literature where a sub-genre was born, the bit-bed which features supernatural creatures, mainly vampire and werewolf. In these novels that take their quick takeoffs, the werewolf is, as we have seen the target of fantasy, the struggle for power by brutality. In the novels by Laurell K. Hamilton or Patricia Briggs werewolves are mostly men who exude virility and fueling physical attraction. If the werewolves in movies by awakening the curiosity and fascination with the transformation nearly complete loss of humanity in contemporary literature that has to be a much more human and more symbolizes the struggle of man over beast. For example in the books by Patricia Briggs, one of the main characters, Adam Hauptman, the werewolf Alpha's mission is to help young recruits werewolves so they do not bloodshed. In these novels, werewolves are integrated in social life and sometimes the prey. They become characters closer to us instead to remain distant monsters.
American Werewolf in London
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Filmography
Joe Dante, The Howling , 1980Landis John American Werewolf in London , 1981
Neil Jordan, The Company of Wolves, 1984
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