Why the werewolf is always ignored in favor of the vampire?

[Morell]

I don't mean alpha, beta or whatever. But the spiritual meaning of the werewolf. Old werewolf stories are quite interesting to read. Not the sanitized versions of them. The actual ones read like steamy women erotica novels. About what happens when a werewolf stumbles upon the farmers daughter in the barn during a hot august night in Auvergne.

I have yet to find those stories yet.

No denial that there might be some, though I've read some different ones that were not sexual at all. No mythological belling can be reduced to one aspect. Though no denial that sexuality tends to be included. Humans love to droll over a lot of things. Dogs and wolves, so even werewolves are definitely included.

Though I wonder how many are tales people believed to be true and those they were telling as fairytales. Reading Lying Sagas of the Cold North was interesting eye opener for me.

 

[dcwilson]

If this is the wrong section to post such a thread, I ask that it be transfered to the appropriate one.

So, I was reading some books about lycanthropy and shapeshifting through history(how cultures in the past saw it, general beliefs, etc.) and it got me thinking...
Ever since humans learned to hunt, they always competed with others animals for prey, but mostly they competed against wolves.Humans always considered wolves excellent hunters and even tried to gather their strength, endurance and ferocity by wearing their pelts, their teeth, using their blood or their bones, basically doing any and everything to get into the "mind of a wolf", if not actually become one.

Humans wanted to be like wolves, that is unquestionable.The amount of stories, art and such speaking of that(even to this day) is proof of it.

If there were indeed people that physically shifted into a hybrid of man and wolf, or into a full wolf shape is highly debatable and not the subject here.

The image of the werewolf, the human that turns into a wolf or even of the wolfman is one linked to beastial vitality, wildness, freedom(depending on the story), strength beyond human comprehension and being able to sense the physical world in a deeper way.
It is an image that is very popular in fiction, considering the amount of shows, movies and books that were and still are being made about the person that either becomes or discovers themselves to be such being.The lack of games about it though is higly disappointing...

Yet...yet, for some odd reason, the vampire is the one always trumping the werewolf, both in terms of popularity and power.How come the idea of an undead being needing to feed on the blood/life force of others, that only has as a differential the fact that they keep their youth(or become frozen in time by the time they change), be considered "better" than our lifelong companion of hunt and survival?
Why is it that even though the werewolf is revered by what it represents, it always seems to lose to the vampire(at least for the majority of interactions as I've seen so far both on the internet and in real life, with people prefering the vampire)?

What are your thoughts on that?

A werewolf changes back to a human form while a vampire is always a vampire. This puts the werewolf in a distinctive disadvantage! The vampire is an undead, so it has more creepy "evil" value and is more "feared". It's a "smart" zombie that isn't restricted to manifesting on full moons! The advantage of the werewolf is that there are less things that can kill it, and isn't bound by religious icons, while the vampire is repelled by religious objects, usually the crucifix, and most people are Christians and it gives them a thrill when evil is repelled by it!

 

[Morell]

... most people are Christians and it gives them a thrill when evil is repelled by it!

Hell yeah. People truly love the power in their hands, especially those people who misuse it.

Reminds me so much of modern evangelical theatre exorcisms. Would be real fun to see them facing a vampire who would laugh at them saying that ony true faith gives crucifix its strength and showing no fear of the one in their hands.