Agent Zero here — this story from Hawaii just flat-out gives me the chills. I once met a man who I thought might be a werewolf, but I’ve never heard of anything like this. This is a cool story! Thanks, Kalea.
“Aloha, my name is Kalea and I live on the island of Kauai in the state of Hawai’i, near Poipu, if you’ve ever been here before.
“I grew up here on the island, and so did my mother and grandmother. My grandmother (who I call my tutu, which is how you say grandmother in our traditional language) loves to tell stories of how things were in the old days, when she was a girl, and she even has some stories that date back before that.
“One story my tutu told me was about a girl she knew when she was a teenager. This girl’s name was Aolani. Apparently she was going to the beach one day when she met a young man who said his name was Mano. He was a native Hawai’ian, too, but she’d never seen him around before, and asked him why. If you’ve never been here before, Kauai is not a big island, and especially back then (the 1930s I think), everyone generally knew who was who, even if they were people from the other side of the island.
“Well, Mano was a very attractive young man, and very charming, and grandma’s friend Aolani was very taken with him. All her friends met him, including my grandmother. She says there was something about him that made you want to be friends with him, and that he had a nice smile. Everyone talked about how striking his smile was. He had very white teeth.
“Aolani and Mano were inseparable for days after they met. The last time my tutu ever saw Aolani, she said that she and Mano were going swimming in the ocean. I’m attaching a photo of what the beach looks like today. It’s Poipu beach.
“Other people saw Aolani in the ocean that day, but she wasn’t swimming with Mano. She was being attacked by a shark. She was far out in the ocean, and no one could help her. Mano was nowhere to be seen, but people swore that the shark’s horrible smile looked a lot like Mano’s big grin.
“My tutu says that Mano was not really a man. There is a legend here that we all learned as children about the Mano Kanaka, the shark-man. We call it the “were-shark”, because it’s like a werewolf. It can go from shark-form to human-form and back whenever it wants. It always ends up luring its prey into the water, and when it turns back into a shark, there’s no hope.
“Grandmother is always a little sad when she tells this story. Aolani was her good friend, and I think she still misses her.”
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June 30th, 2010 at 9:39 am |
Interesting. Honestly weresharks fascinate me. I would like to learn more about them. Everywhere I look I find tales about werewolves but nothing about other werebeasts that exist in the world. Every non-human being clearly wants to avoid exposure, but the werewolf, unfortunately for him, has been investigated for centuries, and we seem to know a lot about them. However we know next to nothing about the real wereshark other than what is told in old stories. We know nothing of his weaknesses, the common traits that weresharks have in human form, nor do we know whether the moon affects them. Any other information is appreciated.