In an earlier post, I mentioned that there is some strange relationship between vampires and wolves. I wasn’t exactly sure what that was, although I did vaguely recall a book that mentioned it. Going back through almost every vampire book I’ve read, I finally remembered which book series it was and came up with a possible connection (after looking up old wolf legends).
The series that made reference to the vampire-wolf connection was called Cirque du Freak. I unfortunately could not recall which book in the series it was, but I remember enough detail as to what was said. The series is about a boy named Darren Shan who, after a stolen spider nearly kills his best friend, is forced to become a vampire’s apprentice as a half-vampire. At one point, Darren and the vampire come upon a pack of wolves that protect and befriend them. When Darren asks why they act this way, his mentor replies that wolves and vampires are cousins.
I also looked up some wolf legends that would possibly support this claim. In most wolf myths, wolves are depicted as evil creatures, usually associated with the devil. This comes up in almost all myths and even childhood fairy tales, like Little Red Riding Hood and The Three Little Pigs. The vampires generally described in novels are also evil and allied with hell. This would definitely relate the two beings.
However, this brings up another question: why are vampires and werewolves usually shown as mortal enemies? In movies such as Underworld and Van Helsing, werewolves and vampires are complete enemies who cannot stand each other. A possible explanation for this is that they compete for prey and control of the night. Maybe because they are both not quite human, but are able to take human form that causes their rivalry. They both can’t walk among normal people unnoticed – eventually too many people would die and that would arouse suspicion. Neither side wants to be found out so they want, or need, to annihilate the other.
Source: http://www.wolfcountry.net/stories/#myth
The series that made reference to the vampire-wolf connection was called Cirque du Freak. I unfortunately could not recall which book in the series it was, but I remember enough detail as to what was said. The series is about a boy named Darren Shan who, after a stolen spider nearly kills his best friend, is forced to become a vampire’s apprentice as a half-vampire. At one point, Darren and the vampire come upon a pack of wolves that protect and befriend them. When Darren asks why they act this way, his mentor replies that wolves and vampires are cousins.
I also looked up some wolf legends that would possibly support this claim. In most wolf myths, wolves are depicted as evil creatures, usually associated with the devil. This comes up in almost all myths and even childhood fairy tales, like Little Red Riding Hood and The Three Little Pigs. The vampires generally described in novels are also evil and allied with hell. This would definitely relate the two beings.
However, this brings up another question: why are vampires and werewolves usually shown as mortal enemies? In movies such as Underworld and Van Helsing, werewolves and vampires are complete enemies who cannot stand each other. A possible explanation for this is that they compete for prey and control of the night. Maybe because they are both not quite human, but are able to take human form that causes their rivalry. They both can’t walk among normal people unnoticed – eventually too many people would die and that would arouse suspicion. Neither side wants to be found out so they want, or need, to annihilate the other.
Source: http://www.wolfcountry.net/stories/#myth
2 comments:
I would have never had guessed that wolfs and vampires could be related. The similarities are almost scary. I think it was the little red riding hood and three little pigs that really shocked me because i never even realized it. Makes me wonder what other creatures are out their that relate to vampires
If you want to really delve deeper into this, all creatures of this nature (superstitous, mythical, etc.) are all inter-related because I believe most were all originally spawned from the fear of something.
On a different note, I mentioned those fairy tales because that surprised me as well. When you're young, you don't think about the similiarities between characters like that in stories.
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