Fern Flower
Published on June 20, 2023

The Werewolf

Movie1913
Werewolf
Witchcraft
The Movie DataBase
The Werewolf
December 13, 1913
An old Indian legend tells of the supposed ability of persons who have been turned into wolves through magic power to assume human form at will for purposes of vengeance. This film is presumed lost.

Description

The Werewolf is a 1913 short silent film. 

It is believed that he was the first famous film about werewolves. The Werewolf is currently a lost film, as it was destroyed in a 1924 fire at Universal Studios.

According to film historian Kelly Robinson, the film contains supernatural elements beyond simple lycanthropy, such as witchcraft and reincarnation.

Unfortunately, since there are no copies of the film, we cannot enjoy the film on our own or take screenshots, but this is a very important milestone in the history of mystical cinema, not to mention it.

Plot

Ki-On-I, a Navajo woman, becomes a witch, mistakenly believing that her husband has abandoned her. She teaches the same skills to her daughter Watuma, who transforms into a wolf to take revenge on the invading white settlers. 

Then, 100 years after Watuma's death, she returns from the dead to kill again.

Werewolf

In the story, a Navajo woman becomes a witch and teaches the same skills to her daughter, who turns into a wolf to take revenge on the invading white settlers.  Then, 100 years after the death of the daughter, comes back from the dead to kill again.

Witchcraft

According to film historian Kelly Robinson, the film contains supernatural elements beyond simple lycanthropy, such as witchcraft and reincarnation.