WEREWOLF! Traditional Geocache
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A sandwich size Lock-n-Lock hidden in the Parker Pond Headland
Preserve. The Kennebec Land Trust organization welcomes
Geo-cachers, but asks that you respect the fragile ecosystem here,
stay on the well marked trails and refrain from bushwhacking. Also,
please sign in at the KLT trail head kiosk. Let them know how you
liked the place.
The cache contains a niffty 6 in 1 key chain multi-tool for the
FTF.
To get here from RT. 17 in Kents Hill, take Rt. 41 north 3.6 miles
to the chimney in West Mt. Vernon. Take the Sandy River Road 2.5
miles to Fellows Cove Road. Take the Fellows Cove Road to the end
where there is a KLT sign and parking. You can also boat or kayak
to the headland landing that is at the North-east end of the
pennisula.
The locals of French-Canadian decent call them…Loup-Garou.
The rest of us call them WEREWOLVES!
I was here about three weeks ago, searching for a good place to
hide a cache. It was in the evening when I got on the trail that
led me on a winding up hill walk through the primordial forest that
was beginning to envelope me in an ever darkening landscape as the
Sun disappeared on the horizon. As I got near the top I could see
the long milky fingers of the full Moon stretching across the
forest floor. About the same time, I heard a rustling of leaves
behind me. Spinning around, I saw nothing, but the hair on the back
of my neck was was standing straight up! I could smell something
too! It smelled like rotten meat and that thick kinda sweet smell
of blood. Now the hair on my arms was standing up on top of all the
goosebumps! “What the heck is that!?” I still
couldn't’t see anything, so I continued on. I crested the
hill and worked my way towards the ledges. The Moon was HUGE! I
could see all the craters doting the “old man’s”
face. I stood in awe, marveling in how it looked like daytime all
around me. Just then I heard what sounded like a Wolf howling a
long moan-full bay. “Wolves? Around here?” I heard
leaves rustling again, but from which direction? I decided it was
time to head back to my truck. I swear I heard a deep growling
sound, so I picked up my pace. It was all down hill on the way back
and I was glad because I didn’t want to stop. It seemed the
fasted I walked the closer the growling got! Soon I was half
running, half stumbling down the trail. The growling growing ever
closer. At one point I could feel a hot breath at the back of my
neck and I screamed out in fear! MY TRUCK! MY TRUCK! WHERE’S
MY TRUCK! As I ran I started catching glimpses of my truck thru the
trees. Yes all most there! Something was grabbing at my ankles!
PLEASE! PLEASE! Yes the DOOR! MY KEYS! WHERE ARE MY KEYS? YES
There………Phew! I was in my truck and had the
doors locked in a flash!…..Nothing there. I scanned the area
around my truck and saw nothing.
No full Moon today, so I felt safe enough to climb back to the
ledges and plant a cache. This might be a good cache to do at
night, during a Full Moon, IF YOU DARE!! I also left a huge clove
of Garlic in the cache to ward off the Loup-Garou!
Description and common attributes
Werewolves were said to bear tell-tale traits in European folklore.
These included the meeting of both eyebrows at the bridge of the
nose, curved fingernails, low set ears and a swinging stride. One
method of identifying a werewolf in its human form was to cut the
flesh of the accused, under the pretense that fur would be seen
within the wound. A Russian superstition recalls a werewolf can be
recognised by bristles under the tongue. The appearance of a
werewolf in its animal form varies from culture to culture, though
they are most commonly portrayed as being indistinguishable from
ordinary wolves save for the fact that they have no tail (a trait
thought characteristic of witches in animal form), and that they
retain human eyes and voice. After returning to their human forms,
werewolves are usually documented as becoming weak, debilitated and
undergoing painful nervous depression. Many historical werewolves
were written to have suffered severe melancholia and manic
depression, being bitterly conscious of their crimes. One
universally reviled trait in medieval Europe was the werewolf's
habit of devouring recently buried corpses, a trait which is
documented extensively, particularly in the Annales
Medico-psychologiques in the 19th century. Fennoscandian werewolves
were usually old women who possessed poison coated claws and had
the ability to paralyse cattle and children with their gaze.
Serbian vulkodlaks traditionally had the habit of congregating
annually in the winter months, where they would strip off their
wolf skins and hang them from trees. They would then get a hold of
another vulkodlaks skin and burn it, releasing the vulkodlak from
whom the skin came from its curse. The Haitian jé-rouges
typically try to trick mothers into giving away their children
voluntarily by waking them at night and asking their permission to
take their child, to which the disoriented mother may either reply
yes or no.
Becoming a werewolf
Various methods for becoming a werewolf have been reported, one of
the simplest being the removal of clothing and putting on a belt
made of wolfskin, probably as a substitute for the assumption of an
entire animal skin (which also is frequently described). In other
cases, the body is rubbed with a magic salve. To drink rainwater
out of the footprint of the animal in question or to drink from
certain enchanted streams were also considered effectual modes of
accomplishing metamorphosis.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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Abg qbja haqre gur yrqtrf...hc arnere gur genvy..fgvyy fghzcrq?