Teen Wolf started in 2011. Throughout the show appeared mythological creatures, new actors, and characters.
1) Werewolf (Greek Mythology)
The story of werewolves begins when King Lycaon and his sons invite Zeus at a feast. They give Zeus human meat to eat. Zeus angry with Lycaon and his sons because they served him human meat. He punished everybody and shifts them into wolves. Druids helped Lycaon and his sons to change back into humans, but they did not break up the curse of Zeus. (Story)
Werewolves are supernatural creatures. They usually appear in human form with increased body hair, fangs, and glowing eyes.
a) Alpha and the true alpha
- They are the leaders of the packs
- Their eyes glow red
- They can use their claws to share memories or to enter someone's mind
Alphas: Talia, Laura, Peter, Derek, Deucalion, Kali, Ennis, Ethan, Aiden, Satomi, Scott
Become an alpha
1) You kill an alpha to steal his power like Peter
2) With his strength, will, and power like Scott—the one who becomes an alpha in this way it is a true Alpha
Rare Alpha
Talia Hale was the strongest werewolf who lived in Beacon Hills. She could shift into a wolf and that nominates her a leader amongst her people.
b) Beta
- A werewolf who joins in a pack
- Their eyes glow yellow or blue (they would glow blue if they murdered an innocent)
Betas with yellow eyes: Scott, Cora, Derek, Liam, Isaac, Boyd, Erica, Lori, Brett, Alec, Hayden
Betas with blue eyes: Derek, Ethan, Aiden
c) Omega
- Are the werewolves who do not have a pack
- Their eyes glow yellow or blue
Omegas with blue or eyes: Ethan, Aiden, Peter, Kincaid, Jackson
Strongest werewolf: The Beast of Gevaudan. In the second video, you will see how it looks like after revival. In the first video, you will view how he looks like before Dread Doctors revive it.
2) Werecoyotes (Greek Mythology)—wolves are cousins with coyote
Coyotes are cousins with wolves. Werecoyotes have the same abilities and traits as werewolves.
Werecoyotes
Werecoyotes are shape-shifters that shift into a coyote or a humanoid creature.
- When Werecoyotes join a pack, it becomes stronger.
Known Werecoyotes: Malia and the Desert Wolf
3) Druids and Darach (Celtic Mythology)
Both words have almost the same meaning. The alphas nominated Druids to be the emissaries of the packs.
a) Druids: Doctor Alan Deaton (Hale's pack and Scott's pack) and his young sister Marin Morrell (The Alpha pack)
Darach
The word Darach means "Dark Oak" and what it is the opposite of word-wise oak (Druid). The Darach is a fallen Druid who has gone on a shady path.
b) Darachs: Julia Bacarri who exchanged her name to Jennifer Blake (Kali's pack)
4) Banshee (Celtic mythology native of Ireland)
Here a lot to say, but those things only appeared in Teen Wolf
- They are besides known as the fairies of death
- They have piercing screams
- They are harbingers of death
- They can hear voices or lead to the crime scene
Known Banshees: Lydia, Meredith, Lenore, and Lorraine
5) Kanima (Teen Wolf mythology)
The Kanima aka weapon of revenge and a master controls it. It is roughly the size of an average human male and covered in scales. . The Kanima has long claws secret venom that can paralyze victims for hours, and it heals. It has a long prehensile tail and can climb up walls like some varieties of lizard. It appears:
a) Shape reflected his inner turmoil and outward behavior. (He remained orphan after his natural parents died)
b) He rejects the bite of an alpha.
Kanima types
a) The beta Kanima (uninvolved version)
b) Evolved version with wings, spikes from its head to its back, and at a spike ball at the tail.
6) Kitsune (Japanese mythology)
The English word for Kitsune is the fox.
There are 13 types of Kitsunes. Kitsunes has an aspect of the elements, meaning they have ties to their abilities. The elements split into 13 categories and the Kitsunes come into each type:
- Kaze (Wind),
- Chikyu (Earth),
- Kasai (Fire),
- Kawa (River),
- Tengoku (Heaven),
- Sanda (Thunder),
- Yama (Mountain),
- Kukan (Void),
- Seishin (Spirit),
- Jikan (Time),
- Mori (Forest),
- Umi (Ocean),
- Ongaku (Music).
Each Kitsune has its strengths and weaknesses, based on the element assigned to. The element reflects Kitsunes origin.
- The eyes of a fire type Kitsune glow in orange
- They are capable to see the aura
- Aging (they have a slow aging process)
- The age of tails determines the power of the Oni summoned. If they are ancient, the Oni is more powerful.
Kitsune: the thunder Kitsune (Kira) and the fire Kitsune (Noshiko).
7) Nogitsune (Japanese mythology)
The story of Nogitsune (Teen Wolf)
Nogitsune was first summoned by Noshiko in 1943. She wanted to gain her revenge on the soldiers at the Oak Creek Internment Camp during WWII. Instead of inhabiting her, as she had prayed, it inhabited the bandage wrapped dead body, Rhys. He slew everyone at the prison camp and Eichen House, the hospital where Rhys died. Noshiko and a female werewolf, Satomi, in the tunnels beneath the camp finally stopped him. Upon his "death" a fly flew out of the host body and Noshiko captured it. She later placed it in a jar and buried it beneath the Nemeton. Nemeton is a huge three who have over 1,000 years old and is a beacon of the supernatural.
- Nogitsune it is one of 13 Kitsunes and is a Void Kitsune
- He feeds from chaos, negative feelings, fight, discord, pain
- Can control people
- Ability to steal the appearance of the person who it possesses
- Can create hallucinations
- The Nogitsune does not have a body
People who were hosts for Nogitsune Stiles and Rhys
Products of possession: Void Stiles and bandaged Nogitsune (Rhys)
8) Oni (Japanese mythology)
The story of Oni (Teen Wolf)
Background and history about the Oni come from Japanese mythology. The old description is more poetic than probative. In both instances seen in Teen Wolf, Oni searches for a "dark Kitsune", "dark spirit" who possessed. Silverfinger claims they are unstoppable and that "no man-made" weapon can stop them. He describes them as a "force of nature" comparable to a tsunami. He says they are not to fight against until they do their work. Like the weather, the Oni are neither good nor evil. They receive a task and will let nothing put an end to them in pursuing that task. They kill anyone who opposes them. The Oni appeared and controlled by the breaking of special knives. They are the physical sign of Kitsune tails. The age of the "tail" determined the "power" of the Oni summoned.
- Their eyes glow in yellow-green
- They are demon warriors
- They appear due to supernatural tools. They summoned to perform a task with no personal motivation or animus.
- They can phase through solid matter. Also, skilled in martial arts combat, and fight with Ninjato or straight swords.
- They cannot operate from sunrise to sundown and are powerless against silver arrows
- They materialize from the darkness and inside them are fireflies
9) Werejaguar (Mesoamerican mythology)
- The eyes glow green
The Naguals (Werejaguars), are shape-shifters that can shift into a Jaguar-like creature. They have the same characteristics as the werewolves. Also, need to learn how to manage it.
Abilities
Aztecs worshiped Werejaguars. They could perform powerful magic able to return a person to an earlier age. Their most significant power is Berserkers creation.
Werejaguar: Kate Argent
10) Berserkers (Teen Wolf mythology and real mythology)
Teen Wolf: Berserkers are men who dress the skins/bones of bears. They do not wear the bear parts to channel the animal's ferocity; they become animals themselves. Berserkers smell like armor made of bone and skin. They wear bear skulls that shield their heads and faces.
Real: Berserkers were Norse warriors who had considerable strength and fury. Historians differ on how they whipped themselves into a killing frenzy. Some attributing their ferocity to drugs. They wore the pelts of bears or wolves, both animals associated with Odin. They absorbed the abilities of the animal. Giving to legend, neither fire nor iron could injure them.
11) Wendigo (American mythology)
Wendigos are cannibalistic shapeshifters, who crave flesh and blood. Human in appearance, Wendigos grow large pointed teeth. They have glowing white eyes when they shift. Their carnality for human flesh is notorious and difficult to control.
Wendigos: Walcott family and Patrick
12) Hellhound (Greek Mythology/Norse Mythology)
The Hellhound aka Cerberus or the dog from hell. The Hellhound's eyes glow in orange. Dread Doctors create and kill the chimeras. Hellhound is the keeper of the supernatural because he carries the bodies to ignite them. He burns the bodies at the Nemeton.
Hellhound: Jordan Parrish and Halwin
The connection between Morrigan, banshee, Hellhound, Hel and the Wild Hunt
Odin has two kids. They are Thor and Loki. Loki has five children. Two with his wife Sigyn who create the first humans and they are Askr and Embla. The other three children with his mistress Angerbrode. They are Fenris the wolf, Jormungand snake, and Hel.
Hel is the youngest of Loki's children, but she is the most powerful, and other gods are afraid of her. She is the ruler of Helheim, the land of the dead in Norse mythology.
Hel is ugly because a part of her body is alive, and another part is dead. Folklores are similar. So, the Christians adopt the name Hel, goddess of Helheim, and create the word hell. Parrish, you have the "hell" in your name, but it comes from your master.
Celtic folklore and the Norse folklore are similar. In Celtic folklore exists a goddess named Morrigan. From this goddess, it comes the inspiration of the folklore about Banshee. The Banshee appears like ghosts and ugly beings or exquisite and remembers us how it looks like Hel. (Dead and alive at the same time).
Morrigan correspondent in Norse mythology is Hel. So can control the hounds and they obey their orders. Remember how reacts Hellhound when Lydia says she requires Parrish in season 5.
Wild Hunt appears because of the Valkyrie do not carry the fallen souls of warriors in Valhalla. The Hellhounds serve the Wild Hunt, but they will obey the orders of the Banshee aka Moriggan aka Hel.
So, the riders are afraid of Banshees because they can control the realm of the dead like Hel. Lydia is a harbinger of death and sent the message of death to the messenger of death, Kira. When the message reaches the destination, the person dies. So, the Hellhound collects his soul.
13) Riders of the Wild Hunt (Norse mythology)
The Wild Hunt is a pre-Christian tradition that exists all over Northern Europe. We assume it is a rationalization for violent storms, yet. In certain regional variations of the myth, deliver that into question.
There are five regional variants of the wild hunt, given localized names.
The core is that there is a group of spectral riders who appear during winter to hunt. This might have led by Odin, and he is leading the ghost of warriors. They did not qualify for Valhalla and ride across the sky on black horses with red eyes, or on giant boars. The red horses through the countryside with a fae legion which appears every seven years. Or failed godlings searching for brides. There is a variation in Japan called the Night Parade of a Thousand youkai. Led by the demon king Nurarihyon.
Depending on the area the hunt listens to:
- Odin,
- King Arthur,
- The Horned King,
- Cernunnos,
- Herne the Hunter,
- the Erl King,
- the King of Faerie,
- a child
They are hunting the biggest predator they can find or search for brides. Represents a terrible omen to witness them as they foretell war, disaster, and plague.
The Nordic variation witnesses the gods on boars riding alongside wolves. They explore battlefields to expose warriors who did not suffer a clean death in battle.
The British variation sees the hunt chase down anything that crosses path as it rides. Wales calls them Dearg Ruadhri or the Red Riders, led by the Horned King. Yet, as this is a pre-Christian myth, most of what we know about it is from the oral tradition. The Romans did not believe in it.
The Celtic tradition has it as the progression of the Erlking and his parade. These are horses, and they snatch anything they can catch. This is the version with the most rules. Most tell people to stay in and shutter the windows in nights where the storm might ride. but there are conditions to the hunt in the Celtic lore, that if the hunt can outrun, you will survive. It is a variant of this that has a child ride as the lead.
The story goes that Ceridwen and Danu once chained the hunt and restrained it with a horn. When the horn blew, the hunt was free because they were wild magic, not bound to god or fate. To stop them, they executed the leader and enchanted his horse, a unicorn that dripped blood. So they were the Red Riders, when the horn blew the hunt would snatch a child and he would lead the hunt. After it, the child died. The hunt lasting as long as the child lived, taking advantage of the child's life to prolong the hunt.
The black horses with red eyes come from popular culture. It develops from mythology, the imagery. Associated with the Horsemen of the Apocalypse, which might be a variant of the myth.
Many variants say the hunt can move from the realm of the gods to the realm of the living, and the realm of the dead. It is a force of nature, like the storm.
The Hunt appears only in winter, between Halloween and the start of May. It is most likely to appear on the winter solstice. Yet, the hounds and horns sound.
Aspect
The Ghost Riders have a much more old-western appearance. They ride horses while wearing cowboy hats and old withered clothing. Clothes typical of the 1800s. Arming themselves with supernatural pistols and whips. A Ghost Rider's face appears to be pale and lined as if scarred. They have closed mouths because of several strips of skin stitching it together. There is, besides, blackness where their eyes should be.
14) The Skinwalker (Mesoamerican mythology)
In Native American lore are people who have the power to take on the shape of various animals. In legend, a Skinwalker is most seen as a coyote, wolf, fox, eagle, owl, or crow. They have the power to assume the form of any animal they choose. Most sources describe the Navajo Skinwalker as wickedness. This happens because of the rituals necessary to get power.
Skinwalkers: A tribe of Mexico
15) Anuk-ite aka Ancient Evil or Beelzebub (Mesoamerican / Greek mythology)
Anuk-Ite is a supernatural entity released from the Wild Hunt.
The Anuk-Ite is an ancient shapeshifter - known among druids as a creature of disharmony. It can manipulate people into turning on each other. Amplify a person's fear, and any associated emotions; paranoia, panic, and anger. This causes people, to commit violent acts becoming hostile to the source of their fear. As a result, the Anuk-Ite need not commit violence. All the while, the Anuk-Ite feeds on affected people's fear, which makes it more powerful and dangerous.
Anuk-Ite is a mythological creature of the Plains Indian tribes. That means the USA, the Cheyenne, Sioux, and Omaha). The creature has many names:
- Hestovato Keo'o
- Héstova'kéke in Cheyenne,
- Anuk-Ité,
- Anuk Ite Win,
- Winyan Nupa in Sioux;
- in English, the Anuk-Ite aka Double-Face, Sharp-Elbows, Two-Faces, Two-Faced People, and Two Face.
In some legends, it is only one creature (or, rather, a two-faced woman and/or a two-faced man). Appears as a human but has a second face on the back of its head. In other legends state that the Anuk-Ite is a race of two-faced creatures. They act by kidnapping, mutilating, and eating other people.
Below you will see my theory why Anuk-Ite has roots in Greek mythology.
Beelzebub aka Lords of Flies is one of the seven princes of hell. In the Catholic church represents the sin of the gluttony. Beelzebub appears first in the episode named Galvanize from season 3B. Allison and Isaac search for more information about Nogitsune. They discover a text into a book written in Latin that has some photos. Besides, they discover in Bestiary someone named Beelzebub. Beelzebub has a connection with the Nogitsune. Nogitsune is a fly and he uses flies to insane people. Remember about Derek, Twins, and Isaac.
The pack unlocks a gate to another world after they defeat the Wild Hunt. The world they come in contact with them is more likely to be Underworld. Wild Hunt can travel between worlds. The riders combined their dimension called Bardo with the living world. Bardo is the stance between life and death. Because of this appear some tears in the veil. So, the dead can come in Bardo too, and with the help of the tears in the veil, they come to our current world through Bardo.
Ancient Evil aka Phobos and Deimos
Phobos and Deimos are two Greek gods and they will play a critical role this season. Also, all people speak about them. I forget saying they are twins.
"You felt the fear" Melissa
"Terror" Chris
These two lines appear in the first trailer in a conversation between Chris and Melissa.
If we are going translating the name of the Greek god, Phobos, in English, will be "fear".
If we are going translating the name of the Greek god, Deimos, in English, will be "terror".
Another minor-essential detail is their parents are Aphrodite and Ares.
These gods are responsible for the situation of FEAR, TERROR, and WAR above Beacon Hills.
As you observe the people from Beacon Hills have unusual reactions. The most affected are the teens who are not supernatural beings. How many of you read a book or something about psychic degradation in steps? This time we will assist to a scale of fear.
- The people are afraid of supernatural creatures (fear)
- The people terrorized because of excessive fear and become psychopaths as Nolan. He hurt Corey with the pen. You can observe the excessive fear on his face. Also, we can see him in the library while he sleeps on a book and wakes up like he had a nightmare (terror)
- The people manifest their instinct for survival and fight back (war)
This season we have huge chances to see Hellhound from Cerberus perspective. It introduced a new Hellhound called Halwin. Are too many references in this season about Greek mythology. Not to mention the producers confirmed he has ties with Ancient Evil.
16) Chimeras
A Chimera is a human who has been scientifically given the powers of at least one supernatural species by the Dread Doctors, although they typically have the traits of two of these species. These hybrid creatures are not bound by the same rules as real supernatural creatures since they were created through science rather than magic or mysticism, thus making them essentially enhanced humans. For example, Chimeras can handle Mountain Ash like any other human, whereas a true supernatural would be unable to touch or manipulate it in any way. Despite this, they are still beholden to some metaphysical rules that are too rigid to be broken.
Chimeras: The beast of Gevaudan, Mason, Tracy, Theo, Donovan, Corey, Beth, Josh, Belasko, Lucas, Hayden, Misha (unnamed woman) and Zach
17) Hunters
Hunters are the people who execute supernatural creatures to defend people.
Training
One of Hunter's earliest training sessions is getting tied up in some random place. Then the trainee must break free of its bonds to escape. (The first step)
Allison says Hunters forge silver bullets as a symbol of completing their training.
Code
"We hunt those who hunt us"
"We protect who can't protect themselves" - Allison Argent
Rules
They only hunt werewolves who harm to humans as long as there is proof.
They do not slaughter younger werewolves, particularly children.
They do not kill humans.
The "honor code" states that if one gets bit by a werewolf, he would take his own life.
Bestiary
The Bestiary is a descriptive book on the various supernatural animals.
Families of hunters are the Argent family and Skulls
Argents: Allison, Gerard, Kate, Victoria, Chriss, Alexander
Argents who do not respect the code: Kate and Gerard
Argents who suicide because they werewolves bit them: Victoria and Alexander
Argents who are fanatics: Gerard
Skulls: Araya and Severo Calavera with other guns for hire
Guns for hire
Guns for hire means mercenary. They reward people to associate with them.
Mercenary: Breaden
Packs in Teen Wolf: Hale's pack, Scott's pack, Satomi's pack
The Hale family were the protectors of Beacon Hills. After Derek killed Peter, he became alpha.
The Alpha pack of Deucalion: Kali, Ennis, Ethan, and Aidan (Note! To be a member of the alpha pack they must kill their previous entire pack)
Derek's pack in season 2 and 3A: Isaac, Boyd, Erica, Cora, and Scott
Scott's pack (Scott became an alpha at the ending of 3A) in 3B: Stiles, Allison, Lydia, Derek, Isaac
Scott's pack in 4: Stiles, Lydia, Malia, Derek, Liam, and Kira
Satomi's pack in 4: they killed the entire pack except for her and Brett
Scott's pack in 5A: Stiles, Lydia, Malia, Liam and Kira
Scott's pack in 5B: Stiles, Lydia, Malia, Liam, Kira and Hayden
Scott's pack in 6A: Stiles, Lydia, Malia, Liam, Corey, Mason, and Hayden
Scott's pack in 6B: Stiles, Lydia, Malia, Liam, Corey, Mason, Alec, and Theo
