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“Even a man who is pure at heart<\/em><\/p>\n

And says his prayers by night<\/em><\/p>\n

May become a wolf when the wolfs bane blooms <\/em><\/p>\n

and Autumn moon is bright”<\/em><\/p>\n

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This being October and me celebrating all things weird and Halloweenish, I figured I\u2019d share my annual lycanthropic calendar check.\u00a0 I have a small patch of wolfs bane (Aconitum napellus, also known as monkshood) in one of our gardens and most years it\u2019s in full bloom sometime in August.\u00a0 But this year has been a very slow season for some plants owing to all the rain and lack of sunny days and warmth.\u00a0 I went out today and found that the buds on the wolfs bane were just beginning to form true blooms.<\/p>\n

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Wolfs Bane Coming Into Bloom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Looking at my Lunar Calendar I noted that the Hunter\u2019s Full Moon was October 5th<\/sup>.\u00a0 A full moon is a point of time but reckoners of lunar time assign the three days before and after the actual point as the full moon.\u00a0 Therefore, tonight is the last night of the full moon and the wolfs bane is actually in bloom.\u00a0 Hmmm.<\/p>\n

Now here\u2019s the thing.\u00a0 I live next to a wood that contains what is charitably called a pond.\u00a0 It is home to a very annoying and highly vocal Barred Owl and a band of coyotes whose musical stylings would be accurately described as blood chilling.\u00a0 Some nights I sit in bed thinking I\u2019d welcome the good old serenade of urban gunfire, ambulance and police sirens.\u00a0 My point is that, for all I know, there\u2019s a werewolf living out there already.\u00a0 But anyway, if there is a werewolf in the neighborhood tonight is his first and only chance this full moon to terrorize us.<\/p>\n

But think of all the pressure on this poor schlub.\u00a0 He\u2019s got to go to work tomorrow and he\u2019s probably watching Sunday Night Football (assuming he\u2019s a democrat which of course all monsters are).\u00a0 And just to complicate things the weather has turned rainy and there are a lot of leaves in the grass.\u00a0 I mean if he\u2019s a suburban lycanthrope and let\u2019s assume he\u2019s getting up there, forty-five or fifty years old, he\u2019s not in the best of shape.\u00a0 Suppose he goes running toward a victim and slips and face plants.\u00a0 Not only is this embarrassing but potentially catastrophic.\u00a0 Suppose he knocks himself out and his erstwhile victim thinks he\u2019s a neighborhood stray and brings him to the vet for treatment.\u00a0 Well in addition to binding his wounds these ministering angels of the animal world are liable to give him a flea bath and neuter him for good measure and put his picture in the Penny Saver adoption section.\u00a0 He wakes up the next morning squeezed into some dog crate in the vets\u2019 office naked and without the family jewels.\u00a0 I mean, that\u2019s not right.<\/p>\n

So tonight, I plan to put out a pan of beer (probably a cheap domestic) loaded up with vodka.\u00a0 With any luck, the poor bastard will conk out behind my shed and wake up tomorrow with nothing worse than a hangover and really bad breath.\u00a0 I mean, we\u2019re neighbors.\u00a0 It\u2019s the least I can do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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