This part of the Codex is for little tidbits of this and that, and all sorts of things only indirectly linked to spiritual therianthropy such as werewolf books, art, and movies, and so on.

There is, or was (It may or may not still exist), a WereWolf Research Center in New York, U.S.A. It was run by a Dr. Stephen Kaplan and supposedly studied "real WereWolves". There were some pages set up on the WWW (the links no longer work) about the WereWolf Research Center, and also at least one article was written about it in a reputable magazine. Dr. Kaplan is also supposedly a leading expert on "real vampires" and has written one or more books. --------Update-I was going more on hearsay than anything before- but now I've dug up some more concrete information on Stephen Kaplan. He is now deceased, and he was the founder of the Vampire Research Center in Elmhurst, NY. He was primarily a vampirologist, and wrote two books, one "The Amityville Horror Conspiracy"; trying to debunk this famous haunting case which was later made into a movie, and two, "Vampires Are", affirming the existence of real vampires. It appears that his werewolf research, which I've heard so much about, must have been only a sideline to his vampire studies, yet I've been unable to track down any more references to it. I'd like to know more about his werewolf research, if it existed. Can anyone help me here?
Anyway, here's a link: Stephen Kaplan

In a Statistical Survey done in 1992, it was found that 80% of the Russian population believed in WereWolves. In this century the Russian government has reportably sent their army into the woods with machine guns and orders to shoot any WereWolves they see!

Recently a Werehippo was reported in the suburbs of a modern city in Africa. This Werehippo openly claimed to be a Werehippo, and a hippo was regularly seen relaxing in his yard, far from places wild hippos lived. He and the hippo were never seen at the same time, and he was never seen transforming. However, his neighbors tried hard to get the government to investigate, but the government declined, claiming that it would hurt the reputation of the government if it even looked into something that silly.

There is a werewolf theme bar in New York, called "The Slaughtered Lamb". It is owned by the same company that owns the Jekyll and Hyde Pub.

One thing I've heard a lot about is that it seems to be nearly impossible for shifters to join the Armed Forces here in America. I'm not sure quite why, but I've come across very few who sucessfully joined the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marines. Many have tried, but the type of story that is told again and again is that after a little bit of basic training, even though they are doing well, the Army either diagnoses them with ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) or depression (even though many of these swear they are perfectly happy and certainly not depressed) and kicks them out. Notably, both ADD and depression are widely used as "catch-all" terms for "we don't know what's wrong with you, don't feel like investigating it further, and feel more comfortable sticking a label on it." Does the Army know about werewolves? And, if so, why doesn't it want them to join up?

Links:

Famous People who Might be Werewolves?

Humorous True Stories about Modern-Day Spiritual Therianthropes

The List

My Own Little "Werewolf Research Center" (Dejanews guided searches) A new feature!! Yum Yum

Bender's Werewolves in Suburbia Probably the best werewolf art site on the Internet, unfortunantly it's also highly pornographic

Yerf probably the best anthropomorphic art site on the Internet, fortunantly it's guarenteed to be "Squeeky Clean"

Circle of Werecats Depite the fact that they are very common in folklore, it is rare to find much in the way of modern werecat stuff. This web ring makes an effort to bring it all together.

Links My own ever-evolving, highly disorganized page of therianthropic and furry and what-ever-all types of links; many out of date, but then again, I don't care so don't email me about fixing them. Also try LINKS2, LINKS3, and LINKS4.

Lycanthropete Another online werewolf comic strip, this one is good merely for the laughs. It portrays the usual sort of stereotypical werewolf, instead of the more interesting, complex character in Buster Wilde, but Lycanthropete is so damn funny that I can't seem to hold a grudge against it for perpetuating negative stereotypes.

Fysh.Org a server primarily devoted to were and furry resources/services, and primarily devoted to the European shifter community

Werewolf Comics Grey Coyote's rather comprehensive list of werewolves and werewolf-like characters appearing in comic books. Includes character bios, comic book appearances, and lots of pictures.

Ten Ways to Know if you are a Werewolf My own little tongue-in-cheek list of signs.

Shifter Slang The subculture has certainly spawned a lot of slang and jargon. This is my own very partial list of shifter slang.

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