Polish Werewolves

The Poles have their were-wolves, which rage twice in the year--at Christmas and at midsummer.
According to a Polish story, if a witch lays a girdle of human skin on the threshold of a house in which a marriage is being celebrated, the bride and bridegroom, and bridesmaids and groomsmen, should they step across it, are transformed into wolves. After three years, however, the witch will cover them with skins with the hair. turned outward; immediately they will recover their natural form. On one occasion, a witch cast a skin of too scanty dimensions over the bridegroom, so that his tail was left uncovered: he resumed his human form, but retained his lupine caudal appendage.

Is this legend still remembered in Poland?

Is this legitimate Polish folklore regarding werewolves?

The Poles have their were-wolves, which rage twice in the year--at Christmas and at midsummer.

The Poles have their were-wolves, which rage twice in the year--at Christmas and at midsummer.

One characteristic of all these witch trials, is the fact, that in spite of their unholy connection and intrigues with the Evil One, no witch ever attained to wealth and station by the aid of the Prince of Darkness. The pleasure to do ill, is all the pleasure they feel. This fact alone might have opened the eyes of their persecutors, for if the Devil had the worldly power which they represented him to have, he might at least have raised some of his votaries to temporal rank, and to the pomps and the vanities of this world. An old German proverb expresses this notorious fact, by saying, that 'every seven years, a witch is three halfpence richer'; and so with all the unholy means of Hell at their command, they dragged out their lives, along with their black cats, in poverty and wretchedness.

but why, after three years, does the witch in the story change the wolves back into human beings?

Once Jarosław Kaczyński said that Donald Tusk had wolverine eyes.

Sabine Baring-Gould

his name is Kaczynski

Has this happened to you?

I have seen a werewolf.

Herodotus in his fourth book, the one on Scythia, in chapter 105 discusses the Neuroi

how did it differ from a normal wolf?

discusses the Neuroi
He does briefly, but he doesn't pretend it's new and refers to Ovid whose writings are the key to this.

details

Human

I prefer to try and forget.....

How did it differ from other humans?

yes, I have seen a werewolf.

Those old legends have an honest basis in the way people interpreted events

later it was found out that everyone from his region used that idiom to state they had fallen in love/

Well? Where?

Herodotus in his fourth book, the one on Scythia, in chapter 105 discusses the Neuroi who once a year become wolves "for a few days".

105. The Neuroi practise the Scythian customs: and one generation before the expedition of Dareios it so befell them that they were forced to quit their land altogether by reason of serpents: for their land produced serpents in vast numbers, and they fell upon them in still larger numbers from the desert country above their borders; until at last being hard pressed they left their own land and settled among the Budinoi. These men it would seem are wizards; for it is said of them by the Scythians and by the Hellenes who are settled in the Scythian land that once in every year each of the Neuroi becomes a wolf for a few days and then returns again to his original form. For my part I do not believe them when they say this, but they say it nevertheless, and swear it moreover.

Herodotus is the Greek father of History predating the Roman Ovid by centuries.

Once Jarosław Kaczyński said that Donald Tusk had wolverine eyes.