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Yes.
The only time I've seen 'lycan' use is when it was together with lycanthrope as a means to describe oneself, of course.
This was before the movies. And before therianthrope was coined.
People would say lycanthrope, or bat lycanthrope if they couldnt find a better word. Even though they really know lycan was wolf. They would have to then explain why they said it that way, naturally.

p.s @ Jenah
I accidently clicked edit instead of quote on your post, and then started typing my post. Well, new mod-brain, if its unequal to your original I'm sorry >_<.

Haha I didnt think you'd be too upset. smile

Everyone can ignore these posts, and get back on topic heart

I don't like these people who act as if they know something about werewolves and vampires (Or anything abnormal) just because they've had an experience with it once or something. They usually think about it too much and make up some stupid explaination that they accept because it makes sense. I've seen it all over this forum. You can pretty much tell who speaks from real experience and who has fooled themselves. People need to learn to not accept things for fact without reason. They need to realize that very few things are certain or a fact. I just stick with what I've experienced myself, I don't trust other peoples summary of their knowledge usually.

Ok, now as for lycanthropes: throughout history, cases of werewolves have almost always been born that way. That is the majority of stories, some claim to have induced the shapeshift with some form for magick. I believe I only know of one instance in history where the werewolves were created through contamination, and that was in a european family, meaning they shared the same blood so the wounds may have been meaningless. So I'm abit skeptical of the contamination idea and werewolves in general. Most, if not all, werewolf cases could have been nothing but a cannabalistic individual with an imagination warped by the obsession with werewolf conspiracies of the past. (for those who don't know, there were quite a few instances where "werewolves" were caught and put on trial, somewhat of a trend that occured all over europe at different times)

((This post may make me seem overly skeptical about the subject but I'm just looking to offer an alternative viewpoint. However, I hear some of you here have fascinating and convincing experiences with the subject, if you're willing to share, I'm listening. I've never had experiences with lycanthropes. But seeing as I've dealt with other crazy stuff that "doesn't exist", I'm an open ear.))

See, I don't think I know very much, I don't like people who think they do and throw fluffy crap around. I just think some people too quickly rationalize what they don't easily understand. I understand that werewolves and vamps may lurk the boards and I target no-one specifically with my words. I just needed a place to post that, because if people too quickly assume they know the truth, they don't often go back to the drawing board with their ideas, should the need to occur. This leads to closed minds. Only when people realize that they don't really know very much for sure can progress be made. Also, this forum and many like it seem to have a lack of skeptics. I'm trying to fill in the role abit, even though I believe in the majority of things discussed.

I will admit that I may have been abit harsh with my statement, just fuming off some steam. Please excuse anything you see truly insulting in my previous statement, I might go back and rewrite it in a much nicer way.

(I hope this doesn't piss anyone else off. neutral )

I like how every simile I come across is about fat kids.

"...Thats like asking the fat kid to guard the pie."

"...faster then a fat kid out the window when the ice-cream truck goes by."

"...it'll go down like a fat kid on a see-saw."

Seriously though, I am all about appropriate skepticism. Unfortunatly, the people who have posted somewhat 'outlandish' statements have yet to reply.

Cool to have you around for it though.

Lol, I woke up this morning wondering if I'd get to this post to find a bunch of people yelling at me and I'm so glad I didnt. Anyway, what even happened to the original poster? I know that when I post stuff I always check it often but I guess it might just be that they can't check their post right now.

Yeah, I tend to check back on my posts, less and less frequently if theres no response though.

Lets hope its that they just can't right now, instead of won't.