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*blink* But there are. Beorn in The Hobbit is the one that comes most immediately to my mind. It's true it's harder to think of named, literary werebears, but I suspect wherever there are bears, there are legends about humans who can turn into bears and vice versa.

Oh yes, of course, stupid me!!

**facepalm**

That's okay, I think I just fractured my brain by trying to read German and listen to Portuguese at the same time. : D

Oh, I know that sort of thing!! I can't speak Japanese and Finnish at the same time; they must occupy the same sectors of RAM in my brain.-

I just finished _Dancing Bears_ by Fred Saberhagen. It's ... not bad, I guess. Maybe worth checking out, if you like were-bears.

That sounds actually very fascinating, especially the part about Russia on the brink of the revolution.

**goes to Amazon and orders**

And hello there!

There are!

Oh! Where?

**looks around**

In the Anita books, the fourth one, Lunatic Cafe, as a family of them. In the Belgariad and Mallorian, turning into a bear runs in the males of one family, can't remember his name. North American mythology have them. Uuuh *thinks* Am sure there are more.

We mentioned them in my werewolf game, too!

Ahhh, thanks!

Hmmm, I do have LC; it's among the Anita Blake books Sal sent me when she was getting rid of hers. I should read it after all, and app a were-bear. Last night, the impulse to do so suddenly struck me. I was talking black bears and grizzlies with Saph, and suddenly imagined a were-bear ambling through the woods in Milliways...

It is autumn here. My bear-like hibernation instincts come to the fore, and I want a were-bear. Let's see if the impulse is still there at the beginning of the next app cycle.

I think a were-bear would be AWESOME, myself.

Your icon is majorly cute!! I do love bears, have done so all my life.

What is that with ancient loves I always had coming to the fore in autumn and turning into Milli!apps??

**shakes head at self**

And now, I must run to work! Lots of stuff to do and customers to snark at -- autumn is catalogue season at work, and I think some of the stress/excess energy turns into pup-spawning impulses. I know I got Teja because of that, two autumns ago. And last year, I started thinking about Ma'at around this time.-

Belar!!! Oh, I love those books...

Nooo, not ze god. Um. Berak? Berrek? Big Viking person with red hair.

There is. In one of the early books, where some witches are kidnapping lycanthropes and skinning them to steal their shapeshifting abilities.

That's the one, right guys?

Yep! And a comment how the female were-bears just not shift while they are pregnant, or somesuch.

I think no female were may shift easily while pregnant, which is why they keep losing their babies if they are trying to have them. At least the shifters whose shifts are triggered by the moon.

Not always, but mostly, yes. But I remember the werebears because they WEREN'T tied to the moon.

...And your icon is kinda hypnotic.

This one? It's about a part in 'Narcissus in Chains' that I particularly disliked, when the action was interrupted rudely not by the more usual sex, but several pages of description of how Jean-Claude had redecorated his sitting room.

Well, then they don't shift while they are pregnant, and do have kids, hence the 'family of them' you mention. Now I really must look into them...

I actually meant (but didn't say, as I am...out of it), that in one of the games I've been in, the baby shifters would shift with their mother while in utero. Which I liked. I get very, very bored by the whole 'female werethings cannot have children' thing.

...I don't remember that bit. Then again, I've mostly blocked out that book.

I think I want a female were-bear who has kids/cubs. I must research this...

*scowls at book* Well, I swear it was the fourth one. Maybe I was just too tired when I was skimming through and missed her. Wouldn't surprise me.

But there was a mama bear. Older, but still.

Ahhh, I see -- so they do exist in that world.

And, aside from that, I was wondering about Kaspar's skin in that manner as well, in the context of that canon.

Actually, I find it fascinating what people took my shout-out to mean...