Are werewolves undead?

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It indisputable that vampires and zombies are undead, but are werewolves? What is it that makes something undead?

Jakob Littel · Accepted Answer

Mythological werewolves are supposed to be living creatures, living under a curse, magic spell, or disease which causes them to become a werewolf.Some legends said that a werewolf would become a vampire upon its death, trading one monstrous existence for another.

Jakob Littel · Answer

Werewolves are not dead or undead or any kind of dead at all. They're not entirely human, but they live and breathe just like any other living creature. As you may already know, to become a werewolf one must be bitten or scratched by another werewolf but not be killed The thing that makes something "undead" is that it must have died at one point but is still somehow moving around and interacting with the world. Vampires are undead because they are physically killed and then brought into a new life as a vampire, which isn't life at all. They are drained of their blood and their organs no longer work, but because they are vampires they still survive as new creatures, or so the legend goes. Zombies are creatures that have also died and somehow, through some sort of dark voodoo or something like that, have been brought back to a form of life, where they need human flesh to survive. Zombies are morbid looking creatures that are usually rotting as it is, they're essentially animated corpses, they don't think or process but they are able to move about and kill.

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Undead Werewolf

Jakob Littel · Answer

A werewolf is not undead because it didn't die and then came back from the dead alive but still a dead corpse, unlike a vampire and zombie who are. Werewolves are mythological or folkloric humans with the ability to shape shift into wolves or anthropomorphic wolf-like creatures, either purposely, by being bitten by another werewolf, or after being placed under a curse. The transformation happens under the influence of a full moon so they are humans and alive. Another explanation that caused the werewolf myths was the result of a real disease that happens to humans called Hypertrichosis but doesn't mean these individuals are animals or change into a wolf. Though severe Hypertrichosis is quite rare it results in excessive or animal-like hair on face and body.Werewolves are also known as lycanthropes.

Jakob Littel · Answer

Something is undead when it has died but is still getting up and moving around. Werewolves have generally been bitten by a werewolf but don't die. They get infected and transform into a wolf. The rest of the time (when they're not being a wolf) they are just like evryone else.Zombies and Vampires and other undead things don't do this as they are permanently the way they are.

Jakob Littel · Answer

Undead means the being has died and then been reanimated.Werewolves are (in the mythology, don't think I'm saying they're real) either born as werewolves or become werewolves later in life (either through magic or the bite of another werewolf). When they're dead, they're just plain dead, no reanimation (okay, okay -- all you WoD players, yes there are abominations, those Garou who succumb to the Embrace, but that's just a small subset of the werewolf mythology. :P).

Jakob Littel · Answer

Romanians especially in the rual parts of Romania believe that werewolves are a type of strigoi (the spirit of a person that for some reason or another are not at rest.) these creatures roam the countryside and attack whoever they come across. While some strigoi will target specific people destroying crops and killing livestock.

Jakob Littel · Answer

Undead are the dead that have risen again. Werewolves are lyncanthropes and are quite alive and normal most of the time.Mummies are undead. Frankensteins monster is undead.

Jakob Littel · Answer

I would say Werewolves arent undead, because they morph into people.Anything that doesnt fit a description of the living i.e, Living under impossible circumsatnces a living creature could never survive, is undead.....to me anyway 😛

Jakob Littel · Answer

Something that has died, but is still living..Its a bit of a subject because technically a vampire may not be dead when it "turns" but still classes as undead..On this theory.. Yes, I guess werewolves are the undead

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