Werewolfology and the troubles with creating a Unified Were Theory

Trying to create a Unified Were Theory is as ridiculous as trying to create a Unified Winter Solstice Holiday. Let's put trees in our house like the pagans did, have a magical man give kids presents like the Greeks did, and celebrate the birth of God's Son like every other religion did. Yeah, that will catch on.

My aimless rant is not entirely without purpose. While trolling the internet for werewolf information, I came upon Yet Another Collection of Werewolf Information. Don't know how original it is, but according to the site, one of the telling features of a werewolf is that he was born on the 25th of December. Now we know the real reason Jesus snuck off to the Garden of Gesthemane at night.

The site, http://www.mythicalrealm.com/legends/werewolf.html, has a decent compilation of werewolf-like myths from different cultures. Again, I can't vouch for the info, but apparently, some Native American cultures, specifically in the Pennsylvania area, believed in "wererats", who prefer carrots dipped in ranch dressing instead of human flesh.

That can't be true.

Another site, on Xanga (http://www.xanga.com/wrewlf98) has a recent post with a similar collection of "facts". They seem to be mainly culled from a page that currently isn't accessible, but included is a paragraph on the Northumberland County werewolf. If you know the story, don't bother checking it out, as it is the same paragraph that has been plagiarized in every collection of werewolf stories I've seen.

I think it would be very interesting to find some primary or even secondary sources of the Northumberland County werewolf.