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The belt theory: In German and Polish folklore, anyone could transform into a wolf by using a magic bet or wolf strap. The strap was believed to be a gift from the devil. Anyone possessing such a strap could never get rid of it, no matter how much he might want to. The belt or strap became a binding contract entering the wearer into a brotherhood of sorts with the devil, surrendering his soul and body to him.
Polish legend speaks of witches being able to transform a bride and groom into wolves by laying a girdle (or belt) of human skin across the threshold at their wedding feast. Later they would receive clothes made of animal fur and be able to resume their human forms at will. Among Teutonic peoples, it was thought that wearing special girdles made from the pelt of a wolf or skin of a hanged man would effect the change. When it was tied around the body in the fashion of a belt, any witch would be able to transform into a wolf. It was also believed that calling out the true name of the individual would force a werewolf to change into their human form.
"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."
A.Wuttke: "Der Deutsche Volks und Aberglaube der Gegenwart" (1925)
The Werewolf of Alt-Marrin
“About sixty years ago in Alt-Marrin there lived a man by the name of Gust K. He too possessed a wolf strap, with which he brought about much damage and misery. Finally the strap was taken from him, and it was to be burned. Three times the baking oven was heated up, and three times the strap was thrown into the glowing fire, but each time it jumped back out of the flames.Nor would water damage the strap. It always returned.However, the pastor from Fritzow finally burned it up. When Gust K. died, the pastor at Alt-Marrin could not finish the Lord's Prayer, and they called on the pastor from Fritzow. The latter said, "Away, away with it!"When they tried to lower him into the earth, the grave opening was too small, so the pallbearers had to trample him down with their feet. For a long time afterward there was always a hole in his grave mound, but it will have closed up by now, for grass has been growing over the story of Gust K. for a long time now. “F. Asmus and O. Knoop, "Der Werwolf zu Alt-Merrin," Sagen und Erzählungen aus dem Kreise Kolberg-Körlin (Kolberg: Druck und Verlag der C. F. Post'schen Buchhandlung und Buchdruckerei, 1898), p. 42.
Modern werewolf sightings:
In Greggton, Texas Mrs. Delburt Gregg told her encounter to Fate Magazine in 1960. She claimed that one night in 1958 while her husband was away on business, she had moved her bed near a screened window to enjoy the cool breeze. She fell asleep there but awoke to the sounds of scratching at the window. In a flash of lightning she observed a huge, shaggy, wolf like creature with glowing, slitted eyes clawing at the screen. She said it bared it's fangs at her. She leapt from her bed to grab a flashlight as the creature fled from the yard and into a clump of bushes. She waited there waiting for the animal to come out of the bushes but instead a short while later an extremely tall man walked out. He hurried down the road and into the darkness.
The Beast of Bray Road
Some of the most famous sightings come from Wisconsin. Known as “The Beast of Bray Road” . It has been reported by numerous witnesses as having a dog or wolf like snout, walking upright on two legs, grey brownish fur and yellow glowing eyes (eye shine).
1936 Jefferson County, Wisconsin. Mark Shackleman who was driving along Highway 18 noticed someone that was digging in a field off the side of the road, where an Indian burial ground was reported to have been. The digger looked up at Shackleman whothen noticed that this looked like a cross between an ape and a wolf. He remarked about having noticed opposable thumbs.