User blog:ShaggyMan/St. Christopher Was A Wesen

Have you ever heard the story of St. Christopher? He was born of a race of vicious, dog-headed people who converted to Christianity and was martyred. No, I'm not joking,  here's an excerpt from The Passion of St. Christopher (translated from 15th century manuscripts):

There was a ''persecution of Christians in time of the emperor Decius, and the holy man Christopher was taken and tortured like the others. Christopher was exceedingly wise, and had observed that the Lord assisted those of the heathen who believed just as much as he assisted Christians. Now this Christopher was one of the Dogheads, a race that had the heads of dogs and ate human flesh. He meditated much on God, but at that time he could speak only the language of the Dogheads. When he saw how much the Christians suffered he was indignant and left the city. He began to adore God and prayed. "Almighty God," he said, "give me the gift of speech, open my mouth, and make plain thy might that those who persecute thy people may be converted". ''

You can also read more about him here.

Okay, apparently the whole "dog head" thing appears to be the result of a mistranslation. He was a Canaanite and the Latin term "Cananeus" was misunderstood to read canineus ("canine"). On top of that, he was supposed to range in height anywhere from 7'5" ro 18' tall.  Plus, the St. Christopher stories may have been based on another saint named Menas.  Regardless of all this "real world" and "logic" nonsense, St. Christopher was obviously a wesen.  Vicious and dog-headed?  He was a Hundjager!  After converting to Christianity, he became a Weider Hundjager.

I know what you're going to say, "But Hundjagers aren't over seven feet tall." Sure, but most people aren't over seven feet tall, but there are some. Christopher was simply a really, really tall Hundjager. So, until Grimm introduces a 7 ft tall dog race, that's my theory and I'm sticking to it.