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The word FAQ means Frequently Asked Questions about some topic and like this name says, it made easy the life for everybody who has a common question and wants a quick answer.

This is the FAQ version 5.0 about the website WolfCountry: The Werewolf Forest, this document is up-to-date, rewritten, cleaned and validated in English language. Please read this document before you send questions, comments, critics or flames. The point of view expressed in this document is from the author of this website, Lobocursor Lyceus. The hosts that give space for this webpage do not share or support those opinions.

SECTION I. ABOUT WOLFCOUNTRY THE WEREWOLF FOREST

1.1 What is "WolfCountry: The Werewolf Forest"?

1.2 Who write this website?

1.3 Why this site have this funny native look?

1.4 What means "Loup Garou Underground"?

SECTION II. SPECIFIC QUESTIONS ABOUT WOLFCOUNTRY'S CONTENTS

2.1 If this is not a furry website, why you have furry stuff and why you are hosted in Furnation?

2.2 Why you closed the Grafica Gallery section?

2.3 Why you don't add a chat, blog, BBS, etc. to the site?

2.4 Why you don't talk about vampires?

2.5 WHY YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT SATANISM, PAGANISM, WICCA, ETC?

2.6 WHY YOU DON'T PUT INFO ABOUT WHITE WOLF STUDIOS' GAMES?

2.7 WHY YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT "WERE" SITES LIKE WERENATION, WERENET, WERELIST, ETC?

2.8 WHY YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT SONIC, DONKEY KONG, SPYRO, ETC?

2.9 WHY YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT HALLOWEEN?

2.10 I WANT TO CORRECT/ADD INFORMATION TO WOLFCOUNTRY

2.11 YOU DIDN'T REPLY MY EMAIL, WHAT HAPPENED?

3. LEGAL QUESTIONS ABOUT WOLFCOUNTRY

3.1 LEGAL INFORMATION ABOUT WOLFCOUNTRY

3.2 TECHNICAL INFORMATION ABOUT WOLFCOUNTRY

SECTION I
ABOUT WOLFCOUNTRY THE WEREWOLF FOREST

1.1 What is "WolfCountry: The Werewolf Forest"?

"WolfCountry: The Werewolf Forest" is a serious research website about werewolves and related phenomenon, created on May 1996 by G. Rubio aka "Lobocursor Lyceus", for serve as a guideline to anybody who needs to know about this subject without fake information. "WolfCountry: The Werewolf Forest" do not target a narrow online group in specific (like "furries" and "therianthropes") but is indented to cover a general audience.

For guarantee the quality of the information "WolfCountry: The Werewolf Forest" classifies the origin of its information in fictional works (ie. Role Play Games, RPG) and real information (folklore, history, reserach books). This is made in purpose, because often people believe that fiction books, movies or games are for real, this result in a great trouble to manage and this situation do not meet the goal of the site. (See section II for more specific questions about this).

The topics covered in this website are: Native cultures myths and traditions, religious studies about lycanthropy, modern media that covers the subject, and wildlife and environment.

The topics NOT covered in this website are: Werewolf: the Apocalypse©™, Vampire the Masquerade©™ and any other product from White Wolf Studios©™; occultist, esotericism, satanist, gay, new age, lesbiaism, gaia-cults and any other group alike.

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1.2 Who write this website?

This website is written by me G. Rubio aka "Lobocursor Lyceus". I'm web developer, interactive animator, amateur artist, programmer and mathematician. Also I like wolves, werewolves and native cultures.

I'm not part of any online community, group, pagan religion, "label", etc. I'm not a guru, a shaman, an "awakened", a leader, an alpha, a "therianthrope", a "furry" any other thing you can imagine, so if you think that I can fix magically your life you're wrong. (You can find more about me in my personal section of the site).

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1.3 Why this site have this funny native look?

I'm a Mexican guy and I'm proud of it, if you're still reading this page: I do not need to copy clichés and ideas from American media. The Pre-Columbian cultures used to see lycanthropy in a very different way than your modern halloween beast. A werewolf was as a mix of magic, power, mystery and a connection with gods and the Earth. Pre-Columbian myths even portrait the first humans as anthro animals.

So, why I must waste my space in crappy ideas created for sell costumes, books, candies and movies? I like to see my site like a connection to something more important than a halloween party. I'm sorry if you don't like the native look, it have a real link with lycanthropy and I won't change it for match the latest Hollywood werewolf flick.

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1.4 What means "Loup Garou Underground"?

Loup Garou Underground (LGU) is an original idea of P. Sims aka "Wolfie!" created around 1995. The goal of LGU is just to made a network of friendly, peaceful, no racist, no dictatorial and no creepy werewolf pages.

Wolfie! explains it better (from an email, October 2005):

"I was just going through some very old mail and found this.

People may be wondering what the Loup Garou Underground is. I suppose it's my THX :)

[LGU] was in my first, never written, novel about werewolves who come together at night in friendship in small "cafes" in the city. and slowly these groups make contact with other groups, all members of the LGU."

WolfCountry is Loup Garou Underground Mexico, meanwhile Wolfie's Den: Loup Garou Underground Melborune Australia is the main page of the group. If you want to join us please contact Wolfie!

The LGU Mexico logo shows an Aztec track used in old pre-colombian codex, this is a mix of a human and wolf track as a symbol of the first humans, curiously some of them were anthro animals and shapeshifters.

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SECTION II
SPECIFIC QUESTIONS ABOUT WOLFCOUNTRY'S CONTENTS

2.1 If this is not a furry website, why you have furry stuff and why you are hosted in Furnation?

This is a very common question; I've found some comments about this topic in BBS, forums and even chats. I'll address this question using several facts.

1. Lobocursor Lyceus is not a fur

Is this so difficult to understand? I do not follow the furry lifestyle, art style, ideas, fashions or groups. Period.

2. Lobocursor Lyceus is not a burned furry

For be that, I need to be a fur first. Period.

3. WolfCountry do not condone, nor promote or glorify the furry lifestyle

You only need to compare this site against any furry site. My goal is to research about werewolves not to draw pornography. I like to write about native myths but not about twisted sexual tales with anthro cartoons. I think about the link between animals and humans, but I do not use horrible costumes to play to be an animal. If you label anything anthro as "furry", this only evidence your poor level of knowledge in general.

4. WolfCountry is a guest site in Furnation

Circa 1996 I used to post werewolf pictures in a place called "Yerf", then a guy called Nexxus emailed to all people who posted pictures there to join a new place named "Furnation". I emailed back to Nexxus and told him that I run a WEREWOLF SITE and I may not qualify for be included as a "Furry" site. Nexxus replied that my site was fine for Furnation, BECAUSE WEREWOLVES ARE POPULAR AMONG FURRIES AND HE'S A WEREWOLF FAN TOO. So since there was no problem, I agreed to join Funration.

To all those nice therianthrope people who complains about how is possible that a WEREWOLF site is hosted in a FURRY server, deal with it! Where the fuck were you when I needed a free THERIAN server to host my page, huh?

5. WolfCountry do not condone, glorify or encourage any kind of pornography

Several people come to this site with the intention to get free yiff pictures and often complain about the lack of them. Label me as you want, but I do not write a porn or gay site and THIS IS MY SITE AND I WILL PUT WHAT I LIKE HERE, if you want to get "horny" go anywhere else. Period.

6. WolfCountry is a FREE ENTRANCE general purpose website

Any kind of people -friends or foes- can enter here, not matters their ideas, sexual orientation, age, country, race, color skin, religion, education, etc. If you label as "furry" a website because some furries visit it, then you are a vulgar and common "racist-in-the-closet" creature. Get a life, nobody want to be exactly like you.

For more information about Furries, please check the proper article in Werewolf Forest section.

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2.2 Why you closed the Grafica Gallery section?

I opened this section back in 1999 for be more than a spectator and give my two cents to help artists who deserve some promotion online. Some people were so kind to cooperate with the project, meanwhile a huge amount of people disliked the idea. I didn't wanted to steal, alter or sell these art, I just wanted to put a sample, a comment and a link to the artist website. Was it a low act from my side?

I tried to understand the reason of the huge wave of attacks for this idea. Finally I gave up, I see now that people do not want promotion from small websites, but seek it from big sites like Deviant Art, Sheezy Art, VCL or Furnation. So I just wasted my time and money, e-mailing people the last seven years to join my gallery and get unpolite answers. I just will put some of these fine comments that I got across the years, just for give a warning to other people who want to try this silly idea of host art in their websites:

- "I prefer to distribute my valious art for myself, please contact my agent for a meeting"
- "I only give access to my art to websites with more than 500 hits per day"
- "Wait a month"... (a month later) "I'm busy, try next month"... (a month later) "Ah I forgot about you, try in a month please"... (six months later in that Xmas) "here here! have a gay xmas card instead, bub.... WHY THE HELL ARE YOU MAD A ME?"
- "I don't want that anybody link to my art, PUT OFF YOUR PAWS FROM MY ART!!!"

I could fill pages with this type of answers, so I'm tired to offer a service that nobody wants to use. I will use this space in better things. WolfCountry Grafica is closed for good. PERIOD.

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2.3 Why you don't add a chat, blog, BBS, etc. to the site?

WolfCountry is online with the help of generous people who share their server space and bandwidth for free: Currently the folk at Furnation.com and my brother Moonchild does this task. WolfCountry is not a commercial website and really I don't want to add banners and pop-ups to the pages.

A side-effect of this situation is that this website is an old school place with none interactivity. I won't ask to web administrators for script support or database for run a wiki, blog, forum, chat, BBS, people finder and any other bloated Web 2.0 program you want to use for free.

Very often the opinion written of such services is not better like grafitti in a WC wall: Stuffed of nonsense, porn pics, spam links, coward anonymous comments and flamewars. (This happens in my Deviant Art account already!) A simple chat or wiki had become in the mayor pain of some places, even some sites closed for good thanks to nasty people who overcome and hack these services.

So my last word is: "NO THANKS!" Email is fine for me, please use it.

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2.4 Why you do not talk about vampires?

There are none historical record whom talks literally about vampires before the Renascence. A lot people tell that in fact there are real references, but in most cases they cover only some of the attributes given to vampires. Most of them are legends and myths that can be easy tweaked to show any theory. So for those people, if any creature that eats blood is a vampire, then a leech is a vampire too. To talk about vampires we must talk about its origin and its creator.

Bram Stocker was a British writer and novelist, which his most famous work, was without doubt the novel "Dracula". This novel was a hard research work using all the means possible for that age, this is not a secret: He used the historical records and myths from "Blad The Impaler", a Easter European king who did defended his kingdom (currently Romania) from the Turkey invasions. He was famous for be a mad king and have odd fun activities like to impale all invaders and also any people who could break his insane and rare laws. After thousands of deaths, finally he was killed by his own loyal court and buried in secret. Myths give him the name to be "the Devil in person", waiting for a chance for revive and avenge his death. Later, Stocker researched all myths about monsters, demons, ghosts, living dead and gods from other cultures (so why people find familiar clues anywhere) and give to his new vampire lots of awesome powers, included the ability to become a werewolf.

Until here, fans will know by heart the history but what most people ignore or don't like to talk about, is that "Dracula" was not the first vampire. The next step in my research about Stocker was to know why he wrote this novel: Stocker worked in a theatre Company in London, England. Which has a huge success with a screenplay that was the hit of the theatres, this screenplay was named "Varney The Vampire or The Feast of the Blood" and it was based in a very popular book in episodes published in 1849. This novel narrated the adventures of a living dead that come back from death for the only purpose to avenge his murders, his own family. He needed to feed from the blood of his relatives in order to continue with his "life", it doesn't sound familiar to you? Only the blood of the relatives could work, so the curse could be broken with hitting a stable in the heart of the vampire or that all relatives died in the hands of the vampire, what happened first.

Stories like this one where the pastime of the low Victorian society of England, people always wanted stories of horror and mystery with a touch of love and romance. Again, it doesn't sound familiar to you? Not matter that everybody knew the fate of Varney the Vampire, people always wanted to see screenplay and buy the books. So for Stocker this was the goal for write "Dracula", to made a better novel for make money (and you though that bestsellers books and fashions were made in 20th Century).

Varney the Vampire or Feast of Blood Screenplay coverbook (England, 1849)

Of course he needed a real good story for success and he did it, when the novel hit the libraries people started to forget Varney for good. A novel about a cursed love between a king and his beloved princess trapped among the time was the key "love story". Add in the plot myths, gross monsters, a plethora of deaths, a historical background and magic, all this mix touched the hearts of people literally. So topics like lost love, fear of the future, the unknown beyond the death, the hope to never change or age and of course to be ruler of the world, are always the keynotes that made this novel a classic. In a world where nobody knows about the future and the fear is something that has become common everyday, this novel is a good story for find some relief.

Anyway I wrote a lot of "Dracula" but as you noticed, except for a mere lesser werewolf "power-up", werewolves do not get involved a lot in this tale. After more than a century, the legend of the vampire evolved and there are lots of new elements added to the original story, werewolves included. But most of those new elements are added just for profit and repackage the old good story with something "fresh". I only need to mention the Classic Hollywood Monsters© from Universal Studios© for illustrate my point, you can find several bad 1930's to 1950's horror movies mixed and blended for sell lots of cheap souvenirs, founded practically everywhere in the world. The vampire story was made with the only purpose to sell products and it continues doing that so well.

A curious fact, do you remember "Nosferatu the Vampire" the original silent movie made for one of the first movie studios in the 20th Century? We know about this movie thanks to a kind guy, who saved a copy from the fire of destruction literally. Stocker's widow had the rights to anything related to vampires, and Nosferatu was a pirate product without of Stocker's license, especially for the way that it showed vampires (An old and poor pale creature like a beggar). So the relatives won a legal demand and all movie copies were destroyed... or they believed it. So right now, vampires are a favorite topic to write novels just because the copyright finally expired, or you could find relatives of Stocker already trying to put a stable in the heart of pirate vampires. So in the end, vampires are like coca-cola, just another empty commercial product repackaged every year for serve to the hungry masses.

To finish this topic, if you want to know more about real vampires without all the fan hype and foulness, try this book:
Metamorphoses, Mysteries of the Unknown Series, Time-Life Books, New York, 1988.

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2.5 WHY YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT SATANISM, PAGANISM, WICCA, ETC?

This is a difficult topic to explain, in the start if I talk about werewolves, it's obvious that I would believe in paranormal events around the world. But since there are a lot of fake information and chatterboxes around all media, I try to cool off my mind about cases and events submitted to this site. I try to made a serious page about this kind of topic, so it would be so low ethical from my side to post anything that I get without proof its veracity.

It's not my purpose to offend people who practice those religions, but I can't agree 100% with all those ideas. My opinion had made several criticism across the years, but I must give an especial to a reader who signed as "Blackmore" who defined several points about this topic in the 8.2 version of the site (2002). The best argument to rescue about that Blackmore's comment was to define the basics "[..] WWW.Dictionary.com defines a pagan as: One who is not a Christian, Muslim, or Jew. [..]". (08-II-2002). From this, almost all of the legends and myths about werewolves have its roots in pagan cultures, so I just avoid to talk about them then I should close the site or made it a Furry page.

Really that hurts, but he was right in that point. So for this sixth version of the FAQ, I try to explain again my ideas about this topic. I can't ignore paganism but I not a believer of paganism, I can't just toss information like the old middle ages ritual to become werewolf with a potion and a belt made with wolf skin at midnight, just so straight like this. First of all, because from all my online experience, people is so "smart" to made things literally as they read in a web page. So maybe right now a stupid is killing a wolf or steal a wolf fur for "become a werewolf", and this people will not become a werewolf anyway. (Read point 2.6 if you don't believe me about how stupid people can be). So because I'm at charge of this information site, I'm in part the owner of a indy and small media site, but anyway the quality and truthfulness of this place is my main obligation to all my readers.

As I said in previous points, the main goal of WolfCountry is to find answers to myths and help people to understand and like wolves. If I just toss pages whit potions, rituals, "dark books", etc., maybe I could just inform people, but my goals would be not accomplished but otherwise. So talking about demons, witches, mages, death cults and so on neither help to any of my goals. I can't ignore what I'm dealing with, but I don't believe and find useful those stuff for my site, so I'll investigate them under a scientific scope only.

- Okay, but from the definition native religions are pagan too, so what about them?

Those religions often says that humans and animals have deep spiritual links unlike modern science and culture that only see them like mere lesser "things". Animal spirits take a real task for humans either like totems, allied, foes or helpers, this kind of connection changes the life of people who experienced those events. Ignoring that would be a real mistake, especially after all feedback I got all this years.

But to talk in favor of native religions, most of them try to see the link between animals and humans as a gift rather than curse, unlike "modern paganism". So founded a crossing in my path: What I must accept and investigate from pagan religions? After some years to ponder about this, I choose to follow the information about the link of humans and animals in a good way, as a link for try to be better. So I'll talk about only this type of information, for good or for worse.

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2.6 WHY YOU DON'T PUT INFO ABOUT WHITE WOLF STUDIOS'© GAMES?

This is another favorite question from my users, so you have noted that I do not have any reference about "Werewolf: the Apocalypse" Role-Play Game nor any of their expansions or related games from White Wolf Studios Inc. This is NOT a mistake but a form to save a lot of headaches.

Before to continue, I must say that I don't have any trouble playing RPGs or with people who love to play those games or even horror games -if fact, I'm a Konami's Silent Hill© fan-, so you're wrong if you think that I scared for the theme of that game.

Well let's continue, old users from this page and my friends already know that one of my sins was to be a "Storyteller" of a W:tA group around 1995. Even one of the sections planned for WolfCountry was "Tales from Moonranger Warrior: Guardian of the Great Shield" (yes so silly and stupid like most of the names you find in those games). Well, like any rookie storyteller I tried to follow the bookrules, but those rules were odd when I tried to contrast them with my own knowledge about lycanthropy. Also my players wanted more fun rather to made blood fests in every mission. So in a quick move, I used one of my stories to rebuild the W:tA scenario and rules. This was a big success, even that someone told me to ask to White Wolf Studios about advice for the game changes.

In May 1995 I sent an email to their website with all my comments and questions about this. After two weeks, I got an unexpected answer: The webmaster of the site wanted that I stopped to fuck him and since I was a whimper, he already subscribe me in the Mickey Mouse Club Online. I really didn't expect that kind of answer, so when I could eat it finally, I decided to end the group and toss my White Wolf merchandise to the garbage. So if I had all those free time and energy, I could focus more for research about real lycantropy instead of a stupid game. Moonranger was unemployed way long before the launch of WolfCountry, so for not waste the old character I moved him to be the "owner" of the Museum section. Several people told me that I must do not hold grudges about this "incident", but I would like rather never get an answer instead of that "jackass joke".

My troubles with the game didn't end there. After dealing with so nice people, the launch of WolfCountry always made some RPG gamers and odd people to become mad against this site. They often spam me with impolite emails, bad comments in board messages and even "boycotts" against my page, because they demand me that I must say the "truth" about the W:tA game. Yes, they are people who says that garous© are real, that the game books have hidden clues for lycanthropes even they call them "our Bible" and even they predict that I'll sent to hell for help the Wyrm© to destroy them. Gee! I often wonder how stupid are people to think that a game book brought in a comic store should rule thier lives, or how empty and useless they feel to search for a purpose for their lives in such places.

For all those bold and brave "werewolves" I have news for them: Those books are a fiction novel written for a game, there are none garou© tribes, fetishes, umbra©, special powers, less a world-wide corporation who helps something called Wrym©. The only way that you will shift into a werewolf beast is to smoking pot and run in underwear under the full moon; meanwhile a fat smelly nerd gets all your MONEY. If there were REAL werewolves as those books say that exist, I must and should report them in this place, but after TEN YEARS nobody said "me" and I doubt that somebody will do else. Maybe one day you can finally face your mediocre reality, put your "paws" again in the ground and made something useful for your own life.

So you know all now, I have at least TWO GOOD REASONS for not write about those books and games.


Illustration from Werewolf: The Apocalypse© books
just for make sure everybody knows what game I'm talking about. (Crestomatia)

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2.7 WHY YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT "WERE" SITES LIKE WERENATION, WERENET, WERELIST, ETC?

My personal experience in this kind of web sites was anything but good, so if you still want to read a biased answer based in all the troubles, sadness and humilations I got there, then go ahead. Those places promote something-called "Werecommunity" where you can find people who discuss, chat and made activities related to lycanthropy. Even, several of their members claim that are real werewolves. But don't let that this promotional image fool you, that "Werecommunity" is just another "Popularity contest" like any made at High school.

The owners of the "Weresite" are the self-proclaimed "Werecommunity leaders" and they choose who is "IN" and who is "OUT", like any "King of the Hill" they made a silly set of rules to be considered "werewolf". I used to describe some of those rules, but really it was useless and boring, because all of them can be joined in one single rule:

"You must do what the owners and loyal court of the "Weresite" accept like true, not matters that it changes your way to dress, think, have friends, work, eat, and even your religion. If you don't follow the rules, the group either will ignore you or will attack you".

I didn't want to follow the rules, since I always wonder why I needed to use pagan symbols in my accounts and I refused to accept that paganism was right over all. So after some years and several troubles with those people finally I had the guts to leave that kind of places for good.

- So you think that is good to come to those places?

No, I do not recommend those places. Despite you can find several people whom you can discuss your ideas, soon or later you will find yourself in this situation to follow a bandwagon or get attacked. You can visit those places if you like, good luck.

- Are you against members of those pages?

No, because it would be to be against half Earth planet's population. *grin* I offer an information page like the Yellow pages, it can be used for either friends or foes.

- I have the super-friendly "Werecommunity" page where everybody will be nice with you and ...

I'm sorry, I'm not interested. The last place I joined was "Werelist" (2002) and the owner said the same tale, my posts were blocked 30 minutes after I put them in the site. What was the cause? I wanted to know why I needed to use a pagan symbol in my account and ponder about the values of some pseudoartists called "goldenwolf©" and "kyoth©" (All humans suck and "werewolves" are supreme beings). I was fighting again against the "rules" of that site with the previous results.

I'm not closed to join a site, but as you can understand I won't accept easily to be in an online community again.

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2.8 WHY YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT SONIC, DONKEY KONG, SPYRO, ETC?

This is very good question and it's very related with Furries who use this website. I would be a hypocrite if I dare to say that I don't like videogames with "cute" characters. Despite my personal tastes, I can't take any copyrighted work and change it at my will to look like a werewolf. Let's take Sonic© from Sega©, several people change his look for resemble him as werewolf with fangs and claws, in shapeshift process or even "correctly human anatomic". It may or not may look nice, but this not what the original author indented for the character: To be just a kid's character that lives in a fantasy world. So not matter how hard you wish to make them werewolves, this is just a derivative work that is a piracy work and broke the spirit of the Fan-art.

I'm sorry to tell to all those Furry and non-Furry people who send this kind of work or propose a character for the Museum: Doesn't matter how they like the idea, Donkey Kong© will never be a "weregorilla". If the original author of the character do not made him "were", then I can't add it to the museum. Since this rule may make some debate about certain characters (King© from Namco's Tekken or Crash Bandicoot© from Universal), the museum have a special section called "Weresnap" who deals with them.

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2.10 WHY YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT HALLOWEEN?

It's curious to watch that in Halloween season I even get the twice amount of daily hits. Lots of people often ask why I do not talk about this "proper" season for a werewolf page.

Not matter how modern media want to merchandise this season -a fun party for kids and adults before the "ugly Xmas season"-, the origins of this "holiday" are well known from its pagan roots. As everybody knows, this celebration was made from druids in Europe for celebrate the harvest and please the goods before the winter. The only way to please a god is a sacrifice, of course then the priests were recollecting sacrifices from townspeople.

The famous "trick or treat" is a sweet joke from the original tradition, in the treat part you must give something valuable like the best of your harvest. And if you can't give something good, then you must get the trick but it wasn't to play a "joke". The priests just looked for somebody of that unlucky family to be part of the sacrifice, 'nuff said that make a treat wasn't an easy or cheap arrangement.

The first Christian priest who started to live in those lands didn't like that celebration, but it was so popular among pagan people for get rid off just like that. So they tried to play to the "bandwagon" and made their own "cristian celebration" in those days for convert people, what we know as "Halloween" and in some parts as "Día de muertos".

In its origins, the Halloween celebration never was related to wolves, so how wolves ended inside of the mix? Well, if you read the Bible, the few passages that talk about wolves it's just for give them a bad name: Ferocious, bad companion, minion of devil... so we must think that a "wolf" is bad for this. Wolves are difficult to domesticate, unlike dogs, so not matters how much time you have lived with a wolf, soon or late he or she will do something by instinct. Dogs in most cases are just like kids who see in humans their parent figure; meanwhile wolves often want to do things alone or in packs.

So if you think now that pagan people used to raise wolves sometimes, hunt wolves for use their skins and made rituals or potions, then wolves should to be twice evil, no? How a wild animal could be raised by humans unless that it's by the use of black magic? And finally, if you were in the Middle Ages at Europe and see how wolves kill people then you finally get convinced that a wolf must be a minor demon and you could use Halloween for teach people to fear him. Of course, wolves attacked people because they were literally starving, since farmers started to destroy forests and kill natural preys for their use. Wolves needed to kill farm animals and even as last resource humans. This is again another hidden bit of story where humans do not think what they do and just find somebody to be guilt for their own acts.

So now we have "scary werewolves" at Halloween as a reminder that ALL wolves are bad, evil and must be destroyed for the good and pure humans. Humans that do not like to see their dark sides and acts, and want to explain anything that they unknown as evil. For this reason, I don't think that is good to celebrate Halloween when I seek for wolf protection.

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2.10 I WANT TO CORRECT/ADD INFORMATION TO WOLFCOUNTRY

This site doesn't have the "Naked Truth©" or whatever, as you could notice this site is always in constant correction and evolution. If you found an errata in the site, it could be kind from your side to report it to me, just tell me which page have the error, the correct information and which source of information supports your comment. I can't made corrections based in "secret sources" or your "honest word", best if you can provide the source of information like books, real photos, files or webpages for validate your comment.

If you want to send original works made by yourself, please take note of the editorial line of WolfCountry: To defend and clear the bad name of wolves and wild animals, to research about lycanthropy, nature, native cultures and the link between humans and animals. I can't accept works that are against those principles as well promotes illegal acts inside or outside USA like pornography, piracy, drugs, etc.

All questions and comments must be sent using the online form page, you can find the page using the email icon provided in the top of each page of the site.

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2.11 YOU DIDN'T REPLY MY EMAIL, WHAT HAPPENED?

First of all, calm down! As you can notice I use a free email account for manage WolfCountry. Like any email in Earth, soon or late it gets caught in the claws of evil spammers. For avoid to open more than 30 messages everyday, I apply those handy rules:

If you sent a guestbook mark, you'll know that it I did read it when you get a notice with the "ok approval" message. Your comment will be posted in the next version of the site. If after two weeks you didn't get an answer then you can retry again, sometimes marks get marked as spam or bounce.

If you sent a question to the email addy, then check this handy list of common mistakes made in the process:

1. I delete all emails with attachments from strangers - Before send a file send an email in plain text commenting why for I would like that file (i.e. to send a werewolf drawing for the site). Smartass who send viruses and trojans get banned instantly.

2. You sent a nice HTML email with fonts, pictures and music - If you send an email who have lots of pictures, backgrounds and other nice things, it's very likely that I will get several time to read it. If an email gets loud or bothersome to read I'll just discard it like spam, better send an ugly and old fashioned text email.

3. You put an invalid email to reply - I just reply back to ALL emails I get in the message, if it bounces I just erase the answer and ignore further messages also if you use a "borrowed" email you'll get banned too.

4. You send a BLANK email - Explicit indeed.

5. You wrote an odd message like "I'm a ReAl wEarWoLF AnD i Wil EAT u." or "I belong to The Jade Horizon© and we want to illuminate you with our ancestral lycanthropic knwolegde of the thousand forests" - I'm not a teenager for believe your drunken tale, this is a research page not the "newbies" chat. I only answer to people who look serious about the topic and want some real conversation. I do not need to be "illuminated" by any secret group or get pranks from your little sister, I'm sorry if this is the only page that NetNanny™ allow you to browse.

6. Your question is already posted in this FAQ - Explicit indeed.

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SECTION 3
LEGAL QUESTIONS ABOUT WOLFCOUNTRY

3.1 LEGAL INFORMATION ABOUT WOLFCOUNTRY

COPYRIGHTS

WolfCountry: The Werewolf Forest. Contents, original art and related characters © 1989, 1995-2005 Gerardo "Lobocursor Lyceus" Rubio. All rights reserved.

Wolfie! & Loup Garou Underground © 1995-2005 Peter "Wolfie!" Sims. All rights reserved. Used under license.

Moonchild & Moonchild Den © 1997-2005 Mark Straver. All rights reserved. Used under license.

Jon Weretiger © 2003-2005 Jonatham Campos. All rights reserved. Used under license.

GENERAL USER LICENSE

None part of this site can be reproduced for commercial purposes using old, current or future electronic, chemical or mechanical copying devices and/or media without written permission of the author.

All commercial marks and brands used on this site are mentioned under the concept of crestomatia, since this is a research, informative and non-commercial site. All trademarks, copyrights and related references are property of their legal holders.

Neither the author nor the organizations that publish this site are responsible of possible damages to any people who use or abuse of this information. The contents of this site can be changed at any moment and may not reflect the point of view from the host sites.

This is NOT a commercial site, we do not sell products, services or promote religions. This site doesn't promote that visitors join any kind of club, group, website or religion.

The user of WolfCountry agree automatically with all the licenses when he/she access, browse, comment, use, store contents of this site using any program or mechanism for private use, or use any service included in the site.

USER LICENSE ABOUT ART IN WOLFCOUNTRY

Some artworks in "WolfCountry: The Werewolf Forest" may contain copyrighted characters. The pictures should NOT be used for rent, sell, alterate, damage, change, distribute or re-distribute. These materials are "fanart" class, just for private and personal use. Any act outside this disclaimer may violate the copyright laws from United States of America and/or other countries.

The author is NOT responsible of legal action of the copyright holders against violators and is not responsible for the use of the users of the site may give to the artwork.

Some artwork from the site is licensed directly to "WolfCountry: The Werewolf Forest" from their respective authors, in this case, a clear note is placed near the artwork and a link to the author website provided. All crestomatia used in the site are clear marked and a link to the author website may or not may be provided.

USER LICENSE ABOUT DOWNLOADS IN WOLFCOUNTRY

"Download" is defined as a portion of information offered to the general public that can be executed, stored and readable by one or more computer operating systems, computers or hardware that can execute those features.

"WolfCountry: The Werewolf Forest" can offer "downloads" as an addition of the articles offered in the site, those download are free or charge, computer viruses and spyware. It may or not may be posted with a link to the author website.

Downloads are offered "AS-IS" without any warranty, updates or user support. Neither the author nor the organizations that offer the files are responsible of possible damages to any people, hardware or software that use this information. Downloads should NOT be used for rent, sell, alterate, damage, change, distribute or re-distribute.

The author is NOT responsible of legal action of the copyright holders against violators and is not responsible for the use of the users of the site may give to the downloads.

If you need more legal information or have questions, please contact the author.

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3.2 TECHNICAL INFORMATION ABOUT WOLFCOUNTRY

WolfCountry is coded using HTML 4.01 Transitional, JavaScript and Macromedia Flash. The site should work with any compatible browser such Microsoft Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla, Safari, Konkeror and Opera. I recommend to have installed movie/audio players such QuickTime, DivX and Winamp/Freeamp. The graphics are designed with Adobe Photoshop© 6.0, the supported monitor resultion is 800x600 16 bit or higher.

This site is compatible with WereRage 5000© VESA card model 7.0.0.1 (now supports vibrant 64 colors) and the latest ATARI JAGUAR emulation • Best if you browse this site with the keys SHIFT-LOCK and SHIFT active. • In the filmation of this site none animal were harmed • Some egomaniac people may be harmed on this site. • Eat only fruit, vegetables and Little Red Riding Hoods. • 12 howls per container. • Not valid in the states were void. • Refurbished product, not for sale in USA • Sugar Free • If you think you're cheated, call 1-800-CHEATERS. • 50% less fat • Do you wearwolf or werewolf? • Please recycle • Thank you for safe your belts and please see the red light and forget this paragraph.

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