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A Darker Side

For the sake of pure curiosity, and the fact that many individuals believe that Lycanthropy plays a roll in witchcraft/satanism, etc. I have include this page titled "The Darker Side". Here I have compiled information I have found while studying lycanthropy that deal with the true dark side of human/animal nature.
(I do not use these spells/charms or any form of witchery/evil stated on this page and I don't want to hear of anyone who has. This is purely posted from curiosity and study. Nothing More. Thanks.)

Charms & Incantations

This charm/spell dates at least as far back as the Middle Ages, and probably further, evident by the plea to the Devil to give the individual the power to become a werewolf. During that period, wolves were believed by Europeans to be servants of the Devil, and any that attacked people were often believed to be witches turned into wolves by the Devil or werewolves give the power by the Devil. I have included it here only for curiosity's sake, and firmly do not believe it has any power at all, nor do I want to hear of anyone who has actually tried to invoke it. It was published in The Were-wolf and Other Tales from the Dark Side of the Moon, edited by John Miller and Tim Smith.

Spitits from the deep
Who never sleep,
Be kind to me.

Spirits from the grave
Without a soul to save,
Be kind to me.

Spirits of the trees
That grow upon the leas,
Be kind to me.

Spirits of the air,
Foul and black, not fair,
Be kind to me,

Water spirits hateful,
To ships and bathers fateful,
Be kind to me.

Spirits of earthbound dead
That glide with noiseless tread,
Be kind to me.

Spirits of heat and fire,
Destructive in your ire,
Be kind to me.

Spirits of cold and ice,
Patrons of crime and vice,
Be kind to me.

Wolves, vampires, satyrs, ghosts!
Elect of all the devilish hosts!
I pray you send hither,
Send hither, send hither,
The great gray shape that makes men shiver!
Shiver, shiver, shiver!
Come! Come! Come!

Come, spirit so powerful! Come spirit so dread,
From the home of hte werewolf, the home of the dead.
Come, give me thy blessing! Come, lend me thine ear!
O spirit of darkness! Oh spirit so drear!

Come mighty phantom! Come great Unknown!
Come from thy dwelling so gloomy and lone.
Come, I beseech thee; depart from thy lair,
And body and soul shall be thine, I declare.

Haste, haste, hast, horrid spirit, haste!
Speed, speed, speed, scaring spirit, speed!
Fast, fast, fast, fateful spirit, fast!

I offer to thee, Great Spirit of the Unknown, this night, my body and soul, on the condition that thou grantest me, from this night to the hour of my death, the power of metamorphosing, nocturnally, into a wolf. I beg, I pray, I implore thee - thee, unparalleled Phantom of Darkness, to make me a werewolf - a werewolf!

Make me a werewolf! Make me a man-eater!
Make me a werewolf! Make me a woman-eater!
Make me a werewolf! Make me a child-eater!
I pine for blood! Human blood!
Give it me! Give it me tonight!
Great Wolf Spirit! Give it me, and

Heart, body, and soul, I am yours.

'Tis night! 'Tis night! and the moon shines white
Over pine and snow-capped hill;
The shadows stray through burn and brae
And dance in the sparkling rill.

'Tis night! 'Tis night! And the devil's light
Casts glimmering beams around.
The maras dance, the nisses prance
On the flower-enamelled ground.
'Tis night! 'Tis night! And the werewolf's might
Makes men and nature shiver.
Yet its fierce gray head and stealthy tread
Are nought to thee, oh river!
River, river, river.
Oh water strong, that swirls along,
I prithee a werewolf make me.
Of all things dear, my soul, I swear,
In death shall not forsake thee.

Author unknown

Sacharow quoted an old Russian charm, to be spoken by one who wished to invoke the Moon-goddess and become a werewolf:

"On the sea, on the ocean, on the island, on Bujan, on the empty pasture gleams the moon, on an ashstock lying in a green wood, in a gloomy vale. Toward the stock wandereth a shaggy wolf, horned cattle seeking for his sharp white fangs; but the wolf enters not the forest, but the wolf dives not into the shadowy vale. Moon, moon, gold-horned moon, check the flights of bullets, blunt the hunters' knifes, break the shepherds' cudgels, cast wild fear upon all cattle, on men, on all creeping things, that they may not catch the gray wolf, that they may not rend his warm skin! My word is binding, more binding than sleep, more binding than the promise of a hero."

Incantation #3 title Unknown, author unknown.

"I (insert name) offer to thee, Great spirit of the Unknown, this night of (insert date) my body and soul, on condition that thou grantest me, from this night to the hour of my death, the power of metamorphosing, nocturnally, into a wolf. I beg, I pray, I implore thee-Thee, unparalleled Phantom of Darkness, to make me a werewolf, a werewolf"!

"Come, oh Come!"

"Tis night! Tis night! and the moon shines white over pine and snow capped hill. The shadows stray through burn and brae and dance in the sparkling rill."

Tis night! Tis night! and the devils light casts glimmering beams around. The maras dance, the nisses prance on the flower enameled ground."

Tis night! Tis night! and the the werewolf’s might makes man and nature shiver.

Yet its fierce grey head and stealthy tread are nought to thee, oh river!

River, River, River

Oh water strong, that swirls along I prithee a werewolf make me.

Of all things dear, my soul, I swear, In death shall not forsake thee."

Magical Items

THE MAGIC SALVE The "magic salve" that was used by humans to transform into wolves was a strong hallucinogenic. When rubbed over the body, it is absorbed into the bloodstream and causes effects similar to LSD. A person under the salve's effect could imagine that he was anything, or anyone. One reason that people during the Medieval Times imagined themselves as werewolves, as opposed to other things, is because of the mass hysteria over werewolves during this time.

One recipe includes the following ingredients :
fat from disinterred children
hemlock
aconite
poplar leaves
soot or cowbane
sweet flag
cinquefoil
bat's blood
deadly nightshade
oil

Other sources mentioned ingredients such as narcotics: Solanum somniferum , aconite, hyoscyamus, belladonna, opium, acorus vulgaris, sium. These were boiled down with oil, or the fat of little children who were murdered for that purpose. The blood of a bat was added, but its effects could have been nil. To these may have been added other foreign narcotics, the names of which have not transpired.
(WARNING : MANY OF THE ABOVE MENTIONED INGREDIENTS ARE HIGHLY TOXIC AND EVEN THE SMALLEST AMOUNTS CAN AND WILL KILL)

THE MAGIC BELT Polish legend said a witch could transform a bride and groom into wolves by laying a girdle of human skin across the threshold at their wedding feast. Later they would receive dresses of fur and would regain their human shape at will. Among Teutonic peoples, it was thought donning special girdles made of the pelt of a wolf or the skin of a hanged man would effect the change. In the Balkans, the magic came from drinking water from a beast's footprint, or from eating a beast's brain. When tied around the body, a strip of leather made from wolf skin can turn a witch into a wolf. However, there is a way to destroy the belt's magic power. If one throws a knife or a piece of shiny steel over the werewolf, he will instantly be transformed into his true human form and stand there completely naked. It was called "making blank" the witch, the wolf, and so forth. A.Wuttke: "Der Deutsche Volks und Aberglaube der Gegenwart"(Contemporary German Falklaw and Superstition)(1925)

"People (men, women, even boys) change, mostly just for several hours, into wolves by wearing a wolfbelt on the naked body (sometimes also on clothes). [this belt is made of] wolf's leather or human skin, especially the skin of a hanged man, often adorned with the zodiac, and with seven tongues on the buckle [which must be put] into the ninth hole; if they want to return to their human form, they open the buckle."

OTHER SUPERSTITIONS ON WAYS TO BECOME A WEREWOLF

In Italy, the common belief is that anybody who is, or who sleeps outdoors during full moon on a friday, is prone to become a werewolf. To drink from the water filling a wolf track, or to eat the brains of a real wolf are other popular ways still believed in Europe to become, accidentally or intentionally, a werewolf.

Being a child conceived under a new moon
Being born on a full moon friday (Italy)
Being born on the winter solstice or Christmas Eve (Italy)
Being the elder son of priest
Being the 7th son of 7th son (Germany).
Drinking water out of the footprint of a savage wolf
Drinking downstream from wolves or from where a wolf pack has drunk
Drinking from haunted streams or pools (in the Harz Mountains in Germany)
Eating the brains or flesh of a wild wolf
Having tasted human flesh.
Getting bitten by a werewolf
Having sex with a werewolf and survive
Wearing the enchanted skin of a dead wolf or werewolf.
Plucking or wearing or smelling the lycanthropic flower (Balkans)
Wearing a belt made of the skin of a executed criminal
Sleeping at night on Friday while the light of the full moon shines in your face (Italy)
Not going to confession for 10 years
Being bloodily murdered on a full moon

* Another way to become a werewolf is by the use of a curse known as the lycaeonia curse . I am currently searching for information on it. Its turning out to be very difficult though.