The Mythological Origin of Druid Werewolves

The word Dryad originally came from Druidism, that is, Druidism. Dryad in Roman and Greek mythology means the goddess of the forest. It is said that every oak tree is inhabited by elves, and these tree spirits pass the Oracle to human beings through tree demons. Therefore, Dryad usually appears as a tree spirit in his later literary works. Druids often appear in modern literature, movies, animations and games, such as Blizzard's famous games World of Warcraft and Diablo. The original meaning of the word druid is "someone who knows the oak tree". Historically, he was a Celtic priest. His main feature is that he lives in the forest and is good at using herbs for medical treatment. Oaks and acorns are sacred objects they worship. Celtic is a people scattered in Gaul, Britain, Ireland, Europe, Asia Minor and the Balkans from the 5th century BC to the 1 century AD. Druid priests are proficient in divination, meticulous in rituals, and good at calendars, medicine, astronomy and literature ... At the same time, they are also synonymous with law enforcers, bards and explorers. Both men and women can become priests of Druidism, and they can act as priests, wizards or prophets in their families, and they also enjoy a lofty position in society. Some historians equate druid priests with Brahmins, Magi, priests and shamans in India. At first, because Celtic was a matriarchal society, only women could be druids, and then men gradually joined. The historical origin of Druidism Europeans generally believe that Druidism advocates nature and neutrality, but they regard the whole wasteland as a hermit of their home. They let their special forces protect nature and balance the whole world. In modern fantasy literature, druids are worshippers and defenders of nature. In order to protect nature, they can fight against any force. Druid's original English name is Druid. The first half of druid means oak tree in Greek, and the second half is similar to the suffix "-wid" in Indo-European language family, which means understanding. Druids take acorns as sacred fruits, so the ancient meaning of Druids' names is people who are familiar with oak trees. The famous "Merlin" in King Arthur's time is said to be a wizard with extraordinary power. In fact, he should be a druid with considerable practice. The word "Merlin" originally refers to a druid wizard who is proficient in poetic art and visual art (divination). Druids worship nature, and the worship of oak is the symbol of the supreme god, so they think that mistletoe parasitic on oak is a panacea with sacred skills and the best curative effect, and of course it needs to be collected through a particularly serious ceremony. This ceremony can only be held on the days of full moon and new moon, or on the sixth night of every month. Archers at this time-druids, the highest druid priest (generally there are two druids at the same time, one in the British Isles and one in the European continent), dressed in white robes, wearing gold jewelry, holding a golden sickle and cutting it from the tree. Druids in other positions are Budd and Orward. Among them, bud is a bard. They sing in the market, mostly improvising, and have the task of praising the king's deeds and inheriting historical events. Sometimes because of clever irony, it may not be liked by these people. (See the explanations of Budd, Oward and Druids in Druidism. Why didn't druidism itself leave a written record? According to legend, the rituals and teachings of Druidism are very mysterious, and they are traditionally taught orally (it is said that there is a tree alphabet, but it is very rare, and personal guess is related to Runiwen -powerx_ne). Therefore, many historians still know little about Druidism after research and exploration through the ages. Archaeologists can only occasionally find some tiny clues, such as pictures and symbols, from the remains of forests, temples and temples. Most information about druidism comes from ancient Greek and Roman documents. The earliest records of druidism in history books are mainly found in Julius Caesar's Battle of Gaul and Tacitus, the greatest historian in ancient Rome's History of Rome. In these works, most of them describe the cruelty and terror of druidism! Caesar reported to the Senate during his expedition to Gaul: "Druid priests have important positions and powers such as arbitration and chief priests in the local area, and are proficient in physics and chemistry; Live in the Woods, cut sacred acorns with golden sickles, and even sacrifice the living! " Sacrifice of the living is very rare. It is only used to prove that a weak monarch in the eyes of others is brave. It won't kill anyone, just shed some blood. However, the authenticity of these accounts is doubtful, because most of them are from the hands of hostile forces of Druidism, which is likely to be an excuse for their invasion. In fact, in most cases, Druids are recognized as ancient wise men, with high moral cultivation, proficient in the way of nature and profound attainments in natural science and theology. And it has a considerable position in politics. When two tribes fight, a big druid in white often rushes out to mediate. Druids appeared in a positive image in BC. They worship nature, are proficient in divination, and cure diseases and save lives. Stonehenge, a huge and mysterious building standing on the Yuan Ye in England, is said to be the remains left by the Druids who sacrificed to the sun god. In the first century A.D., Christian Romans attacked the Druid Celts. The Romans, as winners, washed away the druids, who were slaughtered in batches by Roman soldiers who rushed into the mysterious forest, and the bodies of priests were left in the sacred forest. Druids were destroyed by this massacre and have been dormant ever since. Druidism only appeared in later folk songs and poems. Since then, their prestige has fallen to the status of ordinary wizards for centuries, and their former glory is gone forever, so they can only recite sad elegies alone. Thus, from then to now, Druid gradually ceased to be a religious or historical term, but became a mythical figure. Nowadays, we can see their imitations in some interesting retro sports, but what really affects us is the caster in the game. Druids in modern fantasy literature and games are mostly based on legends before the first century A.D., and gradually evolved into a mysterious organization with natural forces. Werewolves originated in ancient Europe, and people died one after another in Chinese mainland. A young man named Kevinus [1] in the village saw such a terrible situation. In order to survive and get rid of the plague, he was inspired by his own research on the origin of life, and only he survived later. Corvinus has three descendants. Unfortunately, one of the three people was bitten by a bat infected with the virus and the other was bitten by a wolf infected with the virus. Only one survived in human form, and his two brothers were mutated by the virus. One became the ancestor of vampires, and the other became the ancestor of werewolves. Since then, werewolves and vampires have spread in Europe. According to the legend of the werewolf, "even a person who has a pure heart and never forgets to pray at night will inevitably become a wolf on the full moon night when Aconitum is in full bloom." For nearly half a century, werewolves have undoubtedly become one of the hottest topics in western mysterious culture. This monster looks no different from ordinary people, but it will turn into a wolf on a full moon night. In fact, there are myths and legends about people turning into beasts in the cultures of all nationalities in the world. There are foxes in China, lions in Africa, leopards in Peru and tigers in India. These beasts are daunting in the eyes of local people. Europeans, on the other hand, have a special fear of wolves, which originates from some folklore in northern and southeastern Europe. In these places, wolves are regarded as deadly beasts, especially for the poor. "werewolf" is a combination of "Wer" (meaning "man") and "wolf" (meaning "wolf") in ancient Saxony. The reason why "man" is put in front and "wolf" is put in front is because the transformation process of werewolf is from man to wolf, and there is a monster in Baird's Gate 2. The werewolf in Greek mythology is called "werewolf", in which "Lykos" means "wolf" and "Anthropos" means "human". According to legend, lycaon is the king of Arcadia (a mountainous pastoral area in ancient Greece, famous for its simple and quiet life, and later became synonymous with "Xanadu"). He has many wives, fifty sons and a daughter named karis. Some stories say that Licaon was a cruel king, while others say that Licaon was a good king, but his son ungodly. In short, Zeus is going to Arcadia. The word "werewolf" refers to "wolf-mad patient" in medicine, and refers to a psychological patient who imagines himself as a wolf. Acadia were exiled in the18th century, and then moved to the United States, living in southern Alabama and southeastern Mississippi. They are of white, black and Indian descent, and they call werewolves "werewolves". Although there are many folk myths and legends about werewolves, this theme has not made great achievements in literature and art. Unlike vampires, there is a novel called Count Vampire Drakula, which is the cornerstone of modern vampires (see Vampire). The only thing worthy of praise is a novel entitled "The Werewolf in Paris" written by Gail Endor in 1933. The werewolf legend shows that the Greek concept of a Promethean has changed since the 11th century. Etymologically, the word VRYKOLAKAS comes from Slavic, which means werewolf. So in the Balkans and Carpathian mountains at that time, people used the same word to refer to harmless zombies and dangerous werewolves. For example, on 12 16 10 year 10/9, King John Reckling of England was poisoned by a monk and finally died. It is believed that this poison contains wolf poison, that is, the poisoned person will become a werewolf. Soon after, people heard all kinds of howls from his grave, and frightened residents dragged the body to rot. But not long after, someone claimed to see the king who became a werewolf wandering in the forest. Sigismund, the Hungarian king in15th century, and later the leader of the Germanic dynasty of the Holy Roman Empire, urged the church to formally recognize the existence of werewolves at the grand council in 14 14. By the16th century, the legend of werewolves had spread all over Europe, so the Roman Catholic Church decided to launch an official investigation. From 1520 to1mid-7th century, there were about tens of thousands of cases of wolf-changing paranoia in Europe, with the largest number in France, Serbia, Bohemia and Hungary in Eastern Europe. The legend about werewolves came into being in this situation. As for the superstition that werewolves can become wolves despite their human appearance, it can be traced back to the science of ghosts and gods in the Middle Ages. In the early Middle Ages, Europeans were no strangers to werewolves. At that time, the Roman Inquisition believed that Jews, Protestants, witches and werewolves were pagans. Among these pagan demons, werewolves are considered to be the most dangerous. Because they used to be human beings, they especially hate other normal human beings. Their main prey and food are people around them and their livestock. Because of werewolves and their ferocity, the victims they attack usually have serious physical injuries. Under the guidance of the official ruling of the church, people's fear of werewolf monsters has developed to the point of hysteria: thousands of people are tortured to extract confessions, and these "sinners" are usually burned at the stake after confession. /kloc-In the 6th century, in France alone, about 30,000 people were identified as werewolves or vampires and burned alive. At that time, people thought that werewolves were easy to identify, with eyebrows connected, hairy palms, and very withdrawn personality, like hermits and the like. It can be seen that at that time, patients with genetic diseases with abnormal appearance, albinos who were particularly sensitive to sunlight, and some wild children who were lost, abandoned and adopted by animals in European society all became victims of the cruel policy of the church. Superstition became more and more fierce. By the end of the seventeenth century, rumors about werewolves spread, saying that werewolves would become blood-sucking zombies after death. For a time, rumors about vampires and their victims appeared in Silesia, Bohemia, Poland, Hungary, Moldova and Russia. At this point, the "Promethean" who is harmless to people in Greek traditional superstition has become a bloodthirsty demon. At that time, Europeans had not invented the word "vampire", and each country named this magical animal with its own unique vocabulary. The vampire incident has also aroused strong repercussions everywhere, even in Paris in western Europe. Elegant Messenger, a French magazine highly appreciated by the court, published a special issue in 10/694. Until the end of17th century, the name "vampire" could not be used as a conventional title, but the superstition of vampires has become a social phenomenon in Eastern European countries. However, this panic is only caused by some rumors, and there is no official written record. It was not until the early 18th century that the published literature came out.