The steps of turning into a werewolf are all pretty painful for your human form to handle. There is usually a lot of screaming, snapping, stretching, and howling involved. How you turn into a werewolf does have a little to do with the lore. Most say the werewolf is a hybrid of a man and a wolf, which gives a wolf-like creature capable of walking upright on two legs. Some folk tales say the transformation process ends with the victim shifting into a fully completed wolf that bears no human features or mannerisms whatsoever.
Decades of movies and tv shows have taken a crack at the werewolf mythology. There’re many ideas on what happens when you turn into a werewolf, some key factors always remain the same. This list goes over the process of turning into a werewolf step by step.
1.Turning Into A Werewolf Begins With An Attack
How do you turn into a werewolf? It usually starts with an attack. Those who’ve been bitten or scratched by a werewolf, will become one. They will start to have strange cravings, nay noticed enhanced sight and smell, and by the next full moon the transformation will take place. There are also tales of those cursed with Lycanthropy through dark magic. You usually find these cases in origin stories.
2. Hair Sprouts All Over Your Body As You Begin Turning Into A Werewolf
Usually the first thing that happens is hair. For the newly infected, sometimes strange patches of hair will start to appear for a few days leading up to the full moon. On the night of the full moon, thick fur will sprout from every inch of the person’s body.
3. Your Fingernails Are Replaced With Claws
The normal human hands get peeled away like a banana and are replaced with the massive, dangerously clawed hands of a beast. As the new monster parts start popping out, a slimy substance (akin to dog saliva) mingled with blood starts oozing out from the snapping joints.
4. Turning Into A Werewolf Makes The Eyes Glow Amber
Whatever color your eyes were is no more, and it’s not just the iris that changes, the pupil changes too. Yellow, glowing, orbs of a predator radiate from your eye sockets. Stripped of all humanity and replaced with night vision.
5. Turning Into a Werewolf Causes Bones to Contort Into New Positions
Your entire body starts molding itself into its new werewolf shape – which is usually much taller and broader and somewhat slouched. Bones will begin to snap as they lengthen and pop back into place. Creating an entirely new foundation. Gross huh?
6. Your Skin Stretches and Tightens Over The New Form
As the bones begin to reposition themselves the skin will start moving as well. While there’s much to say about skin elasticity, there will still be some shredding. A new, smooth and muscular (albeit fuzzier) layer of flesh eventually slides into place.
7. Your Ears Will Become Pointed
You’ll be getting new pointed wolf ears to go with the enhanced wolf-like hearing abilities. All the better to stalk your innocent prey with. Unfortunately, the process looks just as painful as everything else. They may stretch a bit like Laffy Taffy before finally settling into their rightful form.
8. Sharp Werewolf Teeth Will Emerge
Every lycanthrope is sure to grow a fresh set of sharp, pearly white fangs. They’ll start forming with the snout – because there’s more teeth than a human mouth can accommodate. Your teeth begin to elongate, or in some cases they’ll just fall right out of your face as fangs fit for flesh-tearing burst into your mouth.
9. Your Face Contorts And Splits As The Snout Forms
As the transformation process nears its completion, your face will push forward and split away to form a snout. The jaw dislodges to make room for a massive, deadly maw. As if someone just grabbed your face and yanked a new one straight out.
10. And Out Come The Wolves…
The human’s continuous screaming becomes the roar of a ferocious beast – and just like that the wolf is revealed.
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