Joker wrote:
...werewolves don't seem to be evil or nearly as evil as vampires and seem to be more "neutral" unless provoked.
That does not jibe with most old world cultures. Not even new world ones. Since most European and Asian cultures feared and even reviled normal wolves as evil spirits and harbingers of doom, it is logical to conclude that werewolves were seen as demonic and horrifying beasts which killed without reason. To wit:
http://www.skepticworld.com/cryptozoology/werewolves.asp. I've never heard, from any old European (and I have been around long enough to have talked to Europeans, and American immigrants from Europe, who were alive at the turn of the twentieth century) who thought of werewolves as "more 'neutral' unless provoked".
Joker wrote:
The native americans believes that werewolves were the guardians of thee afterlife and that anyone who was killed by one simply wandered too close.
Actually, only certain tribes did...and you did not explain the why behind that belief (from the Wikipedia page on werewolves, which was well-researched and does not contain any noticeable flaws: "
The Naskapi's believed that the caribou afterlife is guarded by giant wolves which kill careless hunters venturing too near."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werewolf#American_cultures.) In fact, the various Native peoples of the American continent had varying views of what WE call "werewolves", and which they often referred to by many other names (which cannot accurately, by the European/Asian standards, do not qualify as "werewolves")..."wendigo", "skinwalker" "mai-cob", etc.
Joker wrote:
In christianity they are sometimes potrayed as agents of GOD that were sent to hunt down cruel people.
I'd love for you to explain wherever you got that idea...and the particular Christian sect which believes that. In old-world Christian beliefs (which carried over to the new world), the werewolf was seen as an agent of the devil...a beast of vile and horrifying evil (again, from the Wikipedia page on werewolves: "
Werewolves in European tradition were mostly evil men who terrorized people in the form of wolves on command of the Devil, though there were rare narratives of people being transformed involuntarily." And since a large portion of European cultures were Christian by the time of the Holy Roman Empire, that predates the dark ages and the medieval period...by which time Christianity had spread even further across Europe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werewolf#European_cultures.) And I have yet to encounter any Christian sect which believes in the idea of werewolves (or any other mythological creatures) as "agents of God send to hunt down cruel people". Christian belief maintains that God himself is the only arbiter of judgement upon sinners.
Other helpful information on the actual views of werewolves, and werewolf mythological foundations:
http://www.skepticworld.com/cryptozoology/werewolves.asp.
Do I look like I am making this up!?I was writing down exactly as I found this information.I never said the y always protrayed in that manner.You think you can come right up to me and tell me what to write?!
