Werewolves WAS Re: Some questions

[Eileen Rebstock]

Kneasy asked: 
> Dunno about you, but I've never come across partial were-wolf
infections,
> or partial or full natural resistance to such infections before. It's
an
> either/or,
> yes/no type of thing. Get bit and it's hairy pelt time for you, my
son.
> Can
> anyone point to a contrary example?

The Native American wendigo is kind of similar to a werewolf. A
monstrous werewolf-like creature, whose bite doesn't necessarily
transform the victim into the full thing. It reminded me of Fenrir
because the Wendigo bites and eats others in its human form, hence some
interesting late 19th century court cases, where people killed their
relatives claiming they'd become Wendigos and were trying to eat them. 

It piqued my interest that the werewolf in the PoA movie wasn't a real
wolf, but looked terribly like the stylized drawings of the Wendigo.
Don't suppose Rowling had anything to do with that, but while it looked
corny to a lot of people, it really spooked me out, having had a real
childhood fear of the Wendigo brought on from reading details of
gruesome court cases in my region of Canada.

Eileen