How to recognize a Werewolf ?

It is important to be able to recognize a werewolf in his human form, as it is the only circumstance when he is vulnerable.

Paleness Physical signs
Having hairy palms was considered a sure sign of being a werewolf. Real werewolves often shave their palms leaving them rough so rough palms are also considered to be a sign.
Having a left thumbnail that is left uncut as to resemble a claw.
Wearing tattoos, particularly that of a crescent moon.
In human form, a werewolf usually has slanted eyebrows that meet at the bridge of the nose.
A werewolf has an unusually long third finger on each hand.
Werewolves always have to sleep with their jaws open. Once their jaws are closed, it difficult to unclench them.
You may also for symptoms in your human suspects that include increasing violence, increasing aggression, unprovoked rages, insomnia, restlessness, and other bizarre behavior. Unfortunately, over time these symptoms can be brought under control, so do not rely on them exclusively.

Counter-effects
A were-person is easily detected when there have been night-time attacks in a neighbourhood. He or she has no appetite, because of the feasts of raw meat taken during the night; and is always physically exhausted after his transformation and nocturnal activities, thus requires much rest in the daytime.
A werewolf in human form exhibits the wounds acquired from his lunar activities. An often-repeated story concerned a lone man attacked at night by a lone wolf, which he wounded, usually by cutting off a forepaw. Next day a woman would be found with her hand missing, which identified her as the werewolf. Such an incident was reported as fact by Jean de Nynauld in 1615; the woman in the case was burned alive. The story probably recommended itself to some men as a perfect way to dispose of a woman they had mistreated, such as a rape victim.
Sometimes, in order to see if the accusation was true, the suspect werewolf was cut open to see if there was fur on the inside of the skin, as many people believed that a werewolf could reverse its skin in oredr to avoid recognition.

Other signs
Feeble vision, Dry and misted eyes, An unnatural dread of all water, Very dry tongue and always thirsty, Legs have incurable ulcerations from frequent falls &
The devil's mark.

HOW TO KILL A WEREWOLF

As many ways to become a werewolf there are ways to stop being one, or at least to keep these fearsome creatures away.

Ablation of heart or the brain
Werewolves can be killed by any wound that destroys the heart or the brain, decapitation of its head and removal of its heart, or any form of death that causes brain or heart damage (such as hanging or other oxygen-deprivation methods).

Silver bullets
It is said that shooting using silver bullets is very effective in killing werewolves. Even if the efficacy of silver has often been traced to pagan belief in the power of certain metals to ward off evil spirits, its appearence in werewolf mythology seems to be after the rise of the catholic church. Silver is a metal has long been considered to have mystical properties. Its influence ranges from zero to being the only thing that can injure or kill a were .

Exorcism
Exorcism is of dubious benefit against Werewolves. Use the same precautions as for Vampires.
Here is a recipe taken from a german legend :
Cast a circle of 9 feet, and a smaller one only 4 feet in diameter.
Place a series of candles at equal intervals, and place a wooden altar in the south. Within the inner circle, place the werewolf
Build a small fire exactly opposite of the altar, and 1 1/2 foot away from the inner circle.
Place a pot over the fire, containing 2 pints of clear water. To this add:
1/2 oz. camphor
3/4 oz. ammonia
1/2 oz. hypericum
2 drachms sulfur
1/2 oz castorium
6 drachms opium
3 drachms asafoetida
Mix thoroughly and then add a portion of mandrake root, 1 live snake, 2 live toads in a linen bag, and a fungus.
Bind together with red ribbon a wand of three sprigs, each from ash, white popular, ans birch.
When the toads cry out from being immersed in the now boiling water, the mixture is ready.
Take a cupful of the searing liquid and douse the werewolf, as well as lashing him/her with the wand exclaiming "Foul spirit release this persons' soul, return to the great unknown!" Repeat 3 times." (Lather, rinse, repeat..;)

Water
Another popular means of protection is water. This can be based upon the relation of lycanthropy and hydrophobia, since a real canid who is affected by this disease fears water. Sweet water baths are then highly recommended.

Other Cures
Draw the Werewolf blood to fainting
Draw the Werewolf 3 drops of blood
A friend of the werewolf gives him three knifes strokes.
Lop off the Werewolf’s penis

Flog the Werewolf
Roll the Werewolf in the dew
Purge the Werewolf colon and encourage vomiting

Some plants and ingredients: Wormwood, Thyme, Acrid vinegar
Have the Werewolf drink milk and whey for 3 days
In England, rye, cinder, mistletoe, silver and ash trees are good means of protection and you can get away from a werewolf and be safe by climbing up into such a tree.

Rub the Werewolf nostrils with opium before bed
Force the Werewolf to drink salt water

Blowing the head of a werewolf using an iron rod will free the man from werewolf possession
Hit the Werewolf on the head three times with a knife

Reproach verbally the Werewolf
Address the Werewolf three times with a Christian name
Salute the Werewolf with a sign of the cross
Splash the Werewolf with holy water

The Metamorphosis

When the change from human to beast occurs, the features blur and coarsen, the body and palms of the hand become covered with fur, the eyes redden and glow, the nose runs, the mouth salivates, speech is replaced by guttural sounds and the werewolf drops to an animal position on all four with its nails extended into claws. It gains accrued senses and the ability to locate his prey several kilometers away. The usual way for a werewolf to kill its victims is by biting through the jugular vein and feasting on the remains.
The curse of the werewolf
The lycanthrope is both the villain and the victim of his metamorphosis, for when he returns to human shape the remembrance of the foul murders he has performed while in the form of a wolf will continually haunt him.

Lycanthropy as a mental disease

There are medical cases of dementia in which the victim believes he or she is a werewolf. The hallucinations under which lycanthropists suffered may have arisen from various causes. The older writers, as Forestus and Burton, regard the werewolf mania as a species of melancholy madness, and some do not deem it necessary for the patient to believe in his transformation for them to regard him as a lycanthropist.
Examples of lycanthropy are only now being linked to schizophrenia having very few cases to study in our present institutions makes this disease difficult to study in-depth.

Therianthropy

Physical Therianthropy has been defined as the ability to shift from human to animal form and back again. Spiritual Therianthropy, then, is the ability to mentally transform from the normal human mode of thinking and reacting to an animal one. Even if humans are animals, it has been a constant effort of humanity, however, to deny this fact. Humanity has sought to remove all aspects of animalistic traits from its behavior; to the point that being called an animal is considered an insult. It evokes images of uncivilized, impulsive, hedonistic behavior; acting completely without thought or restraint.
All humans are animals, but very few these days can look into themselves and find the animal remnants. Those who believe in Spiritual Therianthropy feel those animal remnants very strongly us and identify themselves with an animal whose characteristics reflect their own. It contacts them through totems, dreams and meditation.
One theory, presented by Issac Boneits in "Real Magic" (1971), explains that sympathetic wounding actually is a cellular psychokinesis brought on by an extreme telepathic rapport between the human and the animal. In such case the human identifies with the animal so much that he actually takes over the animal's body. So any wounding the person receives while controlling the werewolf will carry over through cellular psychokinesis to the human body.

Lycaon

Stories of men turning into beasts go back to antiquity. In parts of ancient Greece, werewolf myths, stemming from prehistoric times became linked with the Olympian religion.
Virgil said the first werewolf was Moires, spouse of the trinitarian Fate goddess (Moera), from whom he learned secrets of magic, including the necromantic knack of calling up the dead from their tombs.
Lycanthropy (werewolfism) was named for Apollo Lycaeus, "Wolfish Apollo," who used to be worshipped in the famous Lyceum or "Wolf-temple" where Socrates taught. Apollo was mated to Artemis as a divine Wolf Bitch at Troezen, where she purified Orestes with the blood of nine sacrificial victims. Pausanias said Apollo was originally an Egyptian deity, deriving his name from Up-Uat (Ap-ol), a very ancient name of Anubis.
In another myth, Lycaeus, or Lycaeon, was a Pelasgian wolf-king who reigned in a nine- year cycle as spouse of the Ninefold Goddess, Nonacris. Lycaon, decided to trick Zeus. He fed Zeus a banquet of meats in which he had included human flesh. Zeus became incensed and turned Lycaon into a wolf, but allowed him to keep his human mind so to be always aware of his doom.
In Arcadia, Mt. Lycaeus was the place for the cult of the Wolf-Zeus. Every year, gatherings took place at which the priests were said to prepare a sacrificial feast that included meat mixed with human parts. According to legend, whoever tasted it became a wolf and could not turn into a man unless he abstained from human flesh for nine years.

Soranus

Another Roman version of the wolf god was Dis Pater, Soranus, or Feronius, consort of the Sabine underground Goddess Feronia, "Mother of Wolves." A certain Roman family claimed descent from her Sabine priestesses, and annually demonstrated her power by walking barefoot over glowing coals during the festival of the Feronia. She was also identified with Lupa the She-Wolf, whose spirit purified Palatine towns through the agency of young men in wolf skins, consecrated by participating in the Lupercalia or Festival of the She-Wolf.

She-Wolf

The She-Wolf was another aspect of the Triple Goddess, as shown by her triadic motherhood. She gave three souls to her son, the legendary King Erulus or Herulus, so that when Evander overthrew him, he had to be killed three times. The Amazons, who worshipped the Triple Goddess, incorporated a tribe called the Neuri, who "turned themselves into wolves" for a few days each year during their main religious festival, presumably by wearing wolf skins and masks. The same story was told of a certain Irish tribe in Ossory, who became wolf-people when attending their yuletide feast, devouring the flesh of cattle as wolves, and afterward regaining their human shape.
South Slavs used to pass a newborn child through a wolf skin, saying that it was thus born of the She-Wolf. After their conversion to Christianity, the people claimed this ceremony would protect the child from witches. But its real purpose, obviously, was to assimilate the child to the wolf totem via a second birth from the wolf.
The Gaulish Diana had numerous wolf-cultists among her votaries, in both ancient and medieval times. Under her totemic name of Lupa she was a mother of wild animals, and certain women seem to have impersonated her in southern France.
A Provencal troubadour named Pierre Vidal wrote a love poem to a lady of Carcassonne, whose name was Loba, "She-Wolf":

"When loup-garou the rabble call me,
When vagrant shepherds hoot,
Pursue, and buffet me to boot,
It doth not for a moment gall me
I seek neither palaces nor halls,
Or refuge when the winter falls;
Exposed to winds and frosts at night,
My soul is ravaged with delight.
Me claim my she-wolf so divine;
And justly she that claim prefers,
For, by my troth, my life is hers
More than another's, more than mine."

Lovers of the She-Wolf sometimes found her on a holy mountain, which the gypsies called Monte Lupo, Wolf-Mountain. Young men could learn the secrets of magic by celebrating the sacred marriage: masturbating over the Goddess's statue and ejecting semen on it. She would guide and protect them, provided they never again set foot in church or mosque. Her votaries' shape shifting followed the phases of the moon, which was another form of the Goddess herself. In the 12th century, Gervais of Tilbury noted: "In England we often see men changed into wolves at the changes of the moon."

Little Red Riding Hood

Another story traceable to wolf-clan traditions was "Little Red Riding Hood." The tale includes all the details of the myth: the red garment, the offering of food to a "grandmother" in the deep woods, a grandmother who wore a wolf skin, and the cannibalistic motif of devouring and resurrection.
The story's original victim would not have been the red-clad Virgin but the hunter, as Lord of the Hunt.
Like Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood is part of the Goddess trinity, wearing the same red garment that Kali and prophetizing the red moon of a lunar eclipse as a bad omen. Romanian churchmen declared that the eclipsed moon was reddened by her own blood, shed when her wolves attacked her, to "make men repent and turn from evil."

The Benandanti Werewolves

This case was tried in 1692 in Jurgenburg, Livonia, situated in an area east of the Baltic Sea, steeped in werewolf folklore. It involved an 80-year-old man named Thiess.
Thiess confessed being a werewolf, saying his nose had been broken by a man named Skeistan, a witch who was dead at the time he had struck Thiess. According to Thiess' testimony Skeistan and other witches were preventing the crops of the area from growing. Their purpose for doing this was to carry the grain into hell. To help the crop to continue to grow, Thiess with a band of other werewolves descended into hell to fight the witches and recover the grain.
The warring of the werewolves and the witches occurred on three nights of the year: Saint Lucia, Pentecost and Saint John (the seasonal changes). If the werewolves were slow in their descent the witches would bar the gates of hell, and the crops, livestock, and even the fish catch would suffer. As weapons the werewolves carried iron bars while the witches used broom handles. Skeistan broke Theiss' nose with a broom handle wrapped in a horse's tail.
The judges were astounded by such testimony, for they had naturally supposed the werewolves were agents of the Devil. But now they were hearing the werewolves were fighting the Devil. When asked what became of the souls of the werewolves, Thiess said they went to heaven. He insisted werewolves were the "hounds of Gods" who helped mankind by preventing the Devil from carrying off the abundance of the earth. If it were not for them all would suffer. He said there were werewolves in Germany and Russia also fighting witches in their own hells.
Thiess was determined in his confession, denying he had ever signed a pact with the Devil. He refused to see the parish priest who was sent for to chastise him, saying that he was a better man than any priest. He claimed he was neither the first nor the last man to become a werewolf in order to fight witches.
Finally the judges, probably out of desperation, sentenced Thiess to ten lashes for acts of idolatry and superstitious beliefs.