In the ancient traditions, there were two basic ways by which a person became a werewolf---and they both involved sorcery. Either one deliberately sought to become a shapeshifter by employing a number of spells, invocations, and secret rituals so that he or she might have the power and strength of a lycanthrope to perform nefarious deeds, or one was cursed by a powerful sorcerer who used his magic to turn his victim into a werewolf to live the life of the damned. In other words, there were voluntary and involuntary werewolves. The notion that a victim of a werewolf attack became him- or herself a lycanthrope because of a bite or a scratch from the beast is largely the invention of motion pictures, quite probably beginning with The Wolf Man (1941). In all of the accounts of werewolf attacks throughout Europe in earlier times, we never read of the victims returning as lycanthropes. If the thousands of victims of the Beast of Le Gevaudan had returned as werewolves, all of France would have been overrun by an army of conqueror lycanthropes. In point of actual fact, the victim of a werewolf attack is almost always mangled, mutilated, and murdered---not merely bitten and "infected" with the werewolf curse.
Sorcery involves the manifestation of supernatural powers granted by spirits who have been summoned by a skillful magician or sorcerer. Many believe that such manipulation of psychic energy can only manifest evil spirits, who seize such an opportunity to enter the physical dimension in order to work evil against humankind and the true God of the universe. The French jurist Jean Bodin insisted that only Satan can change the shape of one body into that of another---and only because God grants him that power in the elemental world.
Those who voluntarily became werewolves through sorcery did so most frequently through the use of special ointments, the wearing of the magical wolf belt, and the chanting of carious spells and invocations to summon the demonic beings that would implement the shapeshifting process. Those who involuntarily became werewolves were the victims of such incantations, curses, and the sinister work of demons summoned to do the evil work of sorcerers who had given themselves to the dark side.
Sources: Spence, Lewis. An Encyclopedia of Occultism. New Hyde Park, NY: University Books, 1960.
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