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Of course in countries where cremation is the custom vampirism of this sort is impossible. The Werewolf, though equally horrible, is the product of a somewhat different Karma, and indeed ought perhaps to have found a place under the first instead of the second division of the human inhabitants of Kâmaloka, since it is always during a man's lifetime that he first manifests under this form.
But now, follow me closely," he added, "for we must waste no time if I am to save this poor man from his affliction and lead his werewolf Double to its rest. And, unless I am much mistaken" he peered at me through the darkness, whispering with the utmost distinctness "Joan and Sangree are absolutely made for one another. And I think she knows it too just as well as he does."
Finally, old Tolima, who was Jurand's right hand, his companion in all battles, and the chief guard of Spychow, said: "That man of Hades, that werewolf Knight of the Cross who tortured you and your child stands now before you. Give a sign what shall be done to him, and in what manner we shall chastise him!"
Wheresoever he went he attacked and devoured mankind, spreading terror and desolation round about, and the dream-readers said that the earth would not be freed from the werewolf until some man offered himself a voluntary sacrifice to the monster's rage.
With this superstition is united another similar to the werewolf of Germany, viz., a belief in the power of human metamorphosis into a leopard. A person so metamorphosed is called 'Uvengwa. At one time in Benito an intense excitement prevailed in the community. Doors and shutters were rattled at the dead of night, marks of leopard claws were scratched on door-posts. Then tracks lay on every path.
And as he said this, he kicked the stone which Cousin Hans had seen him concealing, so that it rolled in upon the field of battle. "Now or never," thought Cousin Hans. "Blücher!" he cried. "Exactly!" answered the captain, "it's the old werewolf Blücher, who comes marching upon the field with his Prussians."
Collin de Plancy, op. cit. iii. 473. The same story is told in Upper Brittany. It is a common belief that a man who has once been transformed into a werewolf must remain a were-wolf for seven years unless blood is drawn from him in his animal shape, upon which he at once recovers his human form and is delivered from the bondage and misery of being a were-wolf.
With fearful precision the weapon smote home and buried itself by half its length in the werewolf's shaggy breast just above the heart, and then, with a monstrous sigh as if he yielded up his life without regret the werewolf fell dead in the shadow of the yews.
A student of occultism is taught how to guard himself from their attempts, but without that knowledge it is difficult for one who puts himself in their way to avoid being more or less laid under contribution by them. The Vampire and Werewolf.
A thimble of cognac did it. Again came an unconfirmed report that a shepherd lad while alternately playing on his Biniou and fishing for eels at the confluence of the Elle and Isole, had seen a werewolf in Laïs Woods. The Loup Garou walked on two legs and had assumed the shape of a man with no features except two enormous eyes.
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