Day 251/365 Full Moon

2000 B.C. .....The Epic of Gilgamesh is written down, including the first literary references to werewolves

500 B.C........ The Scythian people recorded as believing the Neuri people to be werewolves

400 B.C....... Damarchus, an Arcadian werewolf is said to have won a boxing medal at Olympics

55 A.D......... Petronius composes Satyricon, the first full fledged werewolf story

170.............. Pausanias visits Arcadia and hears of Lykaian werewolf rites

1020 ...........First use of the word "werewulf" recorded in English

1101 ...........Death of Prince Vseslav of Polock, alleged Ukrainian werewolf

1182 ..........Giraldus claims to have discovered Irish werewolf couple.

1521 ..........Werewolves of Piligny burnt

1541 ..........Paduan werewolf dies after having arms and legs cut off

1555 .........Olaus Magnus records strange behavior of Baltic werewolves

1589 .........Peter Stubb executed as werewolf at Cologne

1598 ........."Werewolf of Chalons" executed in Paris; Gandillon family burnt as werewolves

1603 .........Jean Grenier tried as a werewolf; sentenced to life imprisonment

1610 ..........Two women condemned as werewolves in Liege

1692 .........The Livonian werewolf Theiss interrogated

1824 .........Antoine Leger tried for werewolf crimes;sentenced to lunatic asylum

1880 .........Folklorist collects werewolf tales in Picardy

1913 ..........The Werewolf (film) uses a real wolf in transformation scene

1914 ..........Sigmund Freud publishes his "Wolf Man" paper.

1935 .........Werewolf of London (film)

1940..........Pat Shirley, Kent,England, reported that her grandmother saw a huge werewolf with red hair while walking in the woods.

1941 .........Wolf Man (film) starring Lon Chaney Jr.

1967..........In Oban,Scotland, a driver on the roadway spotted a wolf-man traveling along the road in the other direction.

1972..........In Defiance, Ohio the Ohio Crescent-News reported that police were on the lookout for a "wolf man" who had attacked three people near the railroad tracks. Two railroad brakemen also reported seeing the creature lurking along the train tracks several times.

1975 .........Surawicz and Banta publish the first two modern cases of lycanthropy

1979 .........An American Werewolf in London (film) with first four-footed werewolf


There's a full moon every month.

And they've been around a very, very long time.