History
editThe wulver kept to itself and was not aggressive if left in peace. Unlike most werewolves, the Wulver is not a shapeshifter and is not, nor was it ever, a human being. Some speculate that the wulver may be an immortal spirit. Jessie Saxby, in Shetland Traditional Lore writes:[1]
The Wulver was a creature like a man with a wolf's head. He had short brown hair all over him. His home was a cave dug out of the side of a steep knowe, half-way up a hill. He didn't molest folk if folk didn't molest him. He was fond of fishing, and had a small rock in the deep water which is known to this day as the "Wulver's Stane". There he would sit fishing sillaks and piltaks for hour after hour. He was reported to have frequently left a few fish on the window-sill of some poor body.
The ancient Celts believed that wulvers evolved from wolves and were symbolic of the in-between phase of a man turning into a werewolf. According to The Scotsman, Scotland's national newspaper, there has not been a reported citing of a wulver in more than 100 years [2]