# The Feraliminal Lycanthropizer **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 28, 2005, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feraliminal-lycanthropizer/337515 "2005-12-28T23:53:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feraliminal-lycanthropizer/337515/1 "2005-12-28T23:53:24Z")
Apparently, this is a [true sonic device that stimulates and enhances the “lower animalistic tendencies” of humans](http://www.physicsroom.org.nz/log/archive/8/feraliminal/)… > [@David Woodard](#): > > The Feraliminal Lycanthropizer is a low frequency thanato-auric wave generator. Known for its use by the Nazis and for its animalizing effects on human subjects tested within measurable vibratory proximity, the machine electrically generates two subsonic sinewaves – one 3hz, the other 9hz. Together, these two frequencies (one acting as carrier, the other as program) generate a lower third, .56hz. > > In addition to these sinewave generators, the machine contains four tape loops of unduplicable lengths, each containing textual material. Two of these loops operate below the threshold of decipherability (one forward, the other backward), and two operate far beyond the opposite threshold (also one forward, the other backward). The effect of the subsonic sinewaves on the sound of these human voice recordings is one of organic ululation. > > But this aurotic environment, with its sensual, undeniably aphrodisiac effect on subjects, is peripheral to the machine’s essential function: to trigger states of urgency and fearlessness, and to disarmour the intimate charms of the violent child within. While the 9hz, 3hz and .56hz wavelengths together signal a state of high-level ferocity and austerity in subjects within approximately four yards, the Trithemean incantations richly pervading the machine’s aural output produce feelings of `aboveness' and unbridled `openess’. > > The combination of drastically contrasting emotional trigger mechanisms results in an often profound behavioral enhancement which occurs strikingly soon (within moments) after the user enters and remains in the auricular field of the machine. This patently Plecidic enhancement is described in a study by the inventor Bill Jenkins as “Sensitive Disturbance”, an “atomic catharsis of nucleopatriphobic anxieties and freeze-locking, thanatotic armor.” [1] > > Documented experiments include cases in which subjects previously unacquainted with one another are found freely sharing inner thoughts, secrets and/or vulnerable feelings, in several cases to the point of impetuously shedding the veil of clothing. Others involve extraordinary strength and detailed focus of will. For example, a dilettante Catalonian national using the machine daily over a period of five or six weeks eventually managed to ingratiate himself with Adolf Hitler, persuade his quarry to adopt the swastika as high totem and emblem of the burgeoning National Socialist Conference, and justify his swift departure from Aryan allies by returning to Germany in 1942 to present Hitler with the inestimable graces of the Dalai Lama. > > It is sad that the most widely known experiment (in which six younger subjects turned their newfound fearless attentions toward death, and purportedly unleashed their physical strength and determination upon each other in a congress of erotic strangulation [2]) has cast a dark cloud over the otherwise useful tool, erroneously compelling otherwise intelligent persons – from both scientific and artistic circles – to avoid the machine altogether. After decades behind locked doors, the Feraliminal Lycanthropizer, protected by the Plecid Foundation and the William Jenkins Estate under the executorship of Bill Jenkins, Jr., is now again entering a phase of widespread experimentation. So what’s the Straight Dope on the Feraliminal Lycanthropizer? What exactly would be the effects of “two electrically generated subsonic sinewaves – one 3hz, the other 9hz. Together, generating a lower third, .56hz.” on the human body? Bunk? Or can I actually Lycanthropize myself? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feraliminal-lycanthropizer/337515/2 "2005-12-28T23:58:37Z")
The text you pasted contains a fair deal of bullshit jargon; as well as preposterous, pseudometaphysical suggestions. I say bunk. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feraliminal-lycanthropizer/337515/3 "2005-12-29T00:17:53Z")
Christ, what’s up the past few days? Of course it’s bullshit. Along with territorial claims on the Moon, the International Star Registry, buying titles of noblity, astrology, and Brittney Spear’s marriage, the Frealiminal Lycanthropizer is bullshit from top to bottom. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feraliminal-lycanthropizer/337515/4 "2005-12-29T00:23:11Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > Christ, what’s up the past few days? > > Of course it’s bullshit. Along with territorial claims on the Moon, the International Star Registry, buying titles of noblity, astrology, and Brittney Spear’s marriage, the Frealiminal Lycanthropizer is bullshit from top to bottom. Well that’s sort of an out of hand, unsubstantiated dismissal. Sonic weapons and the elusive “Brown Note” seem like bullshit, but are well within physical possibility, why not this? ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feraliminal-lycanthropizer/337515/5 "2005-12-29T00:29:57Z")
The web site it came from belongs to a guy who thinks he’s the ruler of the universe :dubious: > [@](#): > > Reprinted from the “David Woodward Supreme Ruler of the Universe” website at [http://www.davidwoodard.com/](http://www.davidwoodard.com/) with permission from David Woodward Of the three references, two are ancient, and the other is a newspaper story. Not strong, believable sources. > [@](#): > > [1] Journal of International Science, vol. V, no.s 6-9; serial reprint; New York, 1933-4. > > [2] New York Times, May 20, 1970, p. C6. > > [3] Psychoradionics: William Jenkins Contra Robert E. Hutchins (Adam Yean, ed.). Edinburgh: Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks, 1947. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feraliminal-lycanthropizer/337515/6 "2005-12-29T00:58:46Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > The web site it came from belongs to a guy who thinks he’s the ruler of the universe :dubious: > > Of the three references, two are ancient, and the other is a newspaper story. Not strong, believable sources. Yes, and apparently it is a true existing device. The claims seem dubious but nevertheless documented. The sources seem reliable. I’m interested in the legitimacy of this. I am not claiming the effects are true, but I’m genuinely interested in the biological effects of manipulated waveforms within the ambient spectrum (EM, aural, etc.). There is a scientific basis for subliminal entrainment. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feraliminal-lycanthropizer/337515/7 "2005-12-29T01:42:56Z")
Dude, it says that a Catalonian (?) used one to brainwash Hitler into adopting the swastika. > [@](#): > > For example, a dilettante Catalonian national using the machine daily over a period of five or six weeks eventually managed to ingratiate himself with Adolf Hitler, persuade his quarry to adopt the swastika as high totem and emblem of the burgeoning National Socialist Conference, and justify his swift departure from Aryan allies by returning to Germany in 1942 to present Hitler with the inestimable graces of the Dalai Lama. But read this. > **[Swastika](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika#Nazi_Germany)** > > The swastika symbol, 卐 (right-facing or clockwise) or 卍 (left-facing, counterclockwise, or sauwastika), is an ancient religious icon in the cultures of Eurasia. It is used as a symbol of divinity and spirituality in Indian religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. > In the Western world, it was a symbol of auspiciousness and good luck until the 1930s when the right-facing tilted form became a feature of Nazi symbolism as an emblem of the Aryan race. As a result of World War II and t... It was actually adopted due to the influence of Emil Burnouf, who was not Catalonian, but German. > **[Émile-Louis Burnouf](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile_Burnouf)** > > Émile-Louis Burnouf (French: \[emil.lwi byʁnuf\]; 26 August 1821, in Valognes – January 1907, in Paris) was a leading nineteenth-century Orientalist and racialist author of Aryanism. He was a professor at the faculté des lettres at Nancy University, then principal of the French School at Athens from 1867–1875. He was also the author of a Sanskrit-French dictionary. > Émile was the nephew of Jean-Louis Burnouf, a famous philologist, and cousin of Eugène Burnouf, the founder of Buddhist studies in the... It pre-dates Hitler’s involvement in the Nazi Party. The claim is bunkum. Also, anybody claiming to be the Master Of The Universe better be named He-Man, that’s all I gotta say. 😃😛 ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feraliminal-lycanthropizer/337515/8 "2005-12-29T03:07:43Z")
Well, that’s the thing. Regardless of the ridiculous claims, is there, or has there ever been such a device? Is their something magical about its acclaimed harmonic? ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feraliminal-lycanthropizer/337515/9 "2005-12-29T03:09:55Z")
C’mon guys, I really want to go Wolfman. Why must you always dash my hopes!?!? ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feraliminal-lycanthropizer/337515/10 "2005-12-29T03:23:43Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > Well, that’s the thing. Regardless of the ridiculous claims, is there, or has there ever been such a device? Is their something magical about its acclaimed harmonic? It’s listed all over the web. Many of the posts I found during a [Google search](http://www.google.com/search?q=Feraliminal+Lycanthropizer&sourceid=mozilla&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8) repeat the same description over and over, yet none offer proof of its existence. If you really want to go Wolfman, you’re howling at the wrong moon on this one. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feraliminal-lycanthropizer/337515/11 "2005-12-29T03:33:25Z")
I would have given the quoted material a 7, perhaps a 7.5 out of ten for pseudoscientific gobbledegook till I got to this: > [@](#): > > atomic catharsis of nucleopatriphobic anxieties and freeze-locking, thanatotic armor. That is just pure gold. “Nucleopatriphobic” alone would get it above 9 but combining that, in a single inspired sentence, with “freeze-locking, thanatotic armor” is sheer genius. 9.8 out of ten, easy. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feraliminal-lycanthropizer/337515/12 "2005-12-29T04:22:45Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > 9.8 out of ten, easy. Yeah, that’s the technical score. What about the score for artistic merit? ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feraliminal-lycanthropizer/337515/13 "2005-12-29T04:55:44Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > Christ, what’s up the past few days? > > Of course it’s bullshit. Along with territorial claims on the Moon, …, buying titles of noblity, … You mean I’m not the Duke of Earl and ruler of the Sea of Tranquillity? ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feraliminal-lycanthropizer/337515/14 "2005-12-29T04:56:33Z")
I think the tone is a bit uneven. The second paragraph is a bit Heath Robinson, and the last two paragraphs veer off into historic conspiracy theory. For artistic merit, perhaps a 6. ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feraliminal-lycanthropizer/337515/15 "2005-12-29T08:07:13Z")
You want a sound-based inducer/enhancer of the lower animalistic tendencies? Okay, try _this_: [http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://members.rott.chello.nl/p.klein6/Pictures/Barry%20White.jpg&imgrefurl=http://members.rott.chello.nl/p.klein6/&h=278&w=370&sz=11&tbnid=kk6JkQsUTMgJ:&tbnh=88&tbnw=118&hl=en&start=3&prev=/images%3Fq%3DBarry%2BWhite%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26c2coff%3D1%26sa%3DN](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://members.rott.chello.nl/p.klein6/Pictures/Barry%2520White.jpg&imgrefurl=http://members.rott.chello.nl/p.klein6/&h=278&w=370&sz=11&tbnid=kk6JkQsUTMgJ:&tbnh=88&tbnw=118&hl=en&start=3&prev=/images%3Fq%3DBarry%2BWhite%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26c2coff%3D1%26sa%3DN) (Warning: sound included). ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feraliminal-lycanthropizer/337515/16 "2005-12-29T09:05:32Z")
> [@](#): > > The Lycanthropizer sets into motion the process of subtle change at the innermost loci of the DNA molecule. DNA doesn’t have any “innermost loci”; that phrase is quite meaningless in chemistry or biology. There’s plenty of other nonsense to be found, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feraliminal-lycanthropizer/337515/17 "2005-12-29T09:37:42Z")
> [@sturmhauke](#): > > DNA doesn’t have any “innermost loci”; that phrase is quite meaningless in chemistry or biology. Well of course there’s no “innermost loci”-- not in untreated DNA. Steric ordination of sequentially nested gene loci is only observed after atomic catharsis. How else do you explain the 72% consistency in phenotypic expression of the nokhod? Scorn if you must, but the facts speak for themselves. Renowned Persian botanist Mahabad Golriz has accomplished what generations of establishment scientists had thought impossible-- a lycanthropic chick pea. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feraliminal-lycanthropizer/337515/18 "2005-12-30T00:49:31Z")
> [@Terrifel](#): > > atomic catharsis. \Band name\ ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feraliminal-lycanthropizer/337515/19 "2005-12-30T01:00:13Z")
“Nucleopatriphobic?” Fear of one’s father at the subatomic level? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feraliminal-lycanthropizer/337515/20 "2005-12-30T01:50:51Z")
Never mind the silly lycanthropizer! Where’s the IQ Cap?! > **[What ever happened to the Neurometrics "IQ Cap" IQ-testing device?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=278544)** > > I recently started a GD thread: “How valid/useful is IQ as a measure of personal intelligence?” – http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=277940. (The question is really a scientific one, but so controversial and contentious I decided... [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feraliminal-lycanthropizer/337515.md?page=2)