bok 1604644355 by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Canary Press eBooks
Published: 2013-09-03T00:00:00+00:00

HOUNDS OF GOD

Werewolves are generally seen as agents of evil, often in league with the devil in their terrorizing of innocent citizens. Sometimes it is said that people are transformed against their will. These people were given the binomial name melancholia canina in the 10th century and in the 14th century, they were called daemonium lupum.

In 1692, in the town of Jurgensberg in Livonia, an old man claimed that werewolves were not evil. He himself claimed to be one, a highly dangerous thing to say when the punishment for being such a creature was generally to be burnt at the stake or even worse. Thiess, as the man was called, announced that werewolves were, in fact, benevolent creatures of God and he gave them the name ‘Hounds of God’. He said that the Hounds of God used their werewolf gifts to protect people. The Hounds of God would do battle with demons and witches in the very depths of hell, preventing them from ascending to earth and wreaking havoc among men and women. Bad crops, he explained, were the result of the werewolves failing to restrain the evil spirits. Thiess was adamant that even though he was a werewolf, he would still go to heaven. Unfortunately, the judges who listened to him did not agree with his views but they decided not to bring the full weight of the law to bear on him, sentencing him to only ten lashes.

The Benandanti

It is said that the old man Thiess was a werewolf of the Benandanti kind. The Benandanti were a particular type of werewolf that did as Thiess claimed – fought evil spirits and demons in the underworld, known as the Malandanti. Their struggles with the Malandanti occurred on four nights of the year, nights that corresponded with the times at which crops were planted or harvested.

The Benandanti were always opposed to witchcraft of any kind, but in 1610 a group of Benandanti werewolves was brought before the Inquisition, the Catholic Church’s movement to root out heretics and offenders against the official Church canon. These Benandanti were found guilty of committing acts of witchcraft and of being witches. The Benandanti, thereafter, became the very thing they had always fought against– evil werewolves – although some sources suggest that they had already lost their struggle with the Malandanti and that it was in fact underworld witches that appeared before the Inquisition.

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