Famous werewolves
There are many famous werewolves in history ranging from the mythological creatures to the modern serial killers … Here are a few compiled for your pleasure.
The werewolves of Ossory
A priest was journeying from Ulster to Meath accompanied only by a single youth when they were benighted in a wood. They had kindled a fire when a huge wolf
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Benandanti werewolves
One of the strangest incidences involving werewolves was that of Benandanti (a term roughly translated into good walkers, those who go well or good-doers) in northern Italy. In this case
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Gilles Garnier
From THE BOOK OF WERE-WOLVESby SABINE BARING-GOULDSmith, Elder & Co., London1865 Towards the close of the autumn of 1573, the peasants of the neighbourhood of Dole, in Franche Comte, were
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Bourgot and Verdung
From THE BOOK OF WERE-WOLVESby SABINE BARING-GOULDSmith, Elder & Co., London1865 IN December, 1521, the Inquisitor-General for the diocese of Besancon, Boin by name, heard a case of a sufficiently
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Peter Stubb
From THE BOOK OF WERE-WOLVESby SABINE BARING-GOULDSmith, Elder & Co., London1865 Another case was that of Peter Stubb near Cologne, in 1573. His confession came after he was tortured on
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Jacques Roulet
From THE BOOK OF WERE-WOLVESby SABINE BARING-GOULDSmith, Elder & Co., London1865 Again in 1598, a year memorable in the annals of lycanthropy, a trial took place in Angers, the
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The tailor of Chalons
From THE BOOK OF WERE-WOLVESby SABINE BARING-GOULDSmith, Elder & Co., London1865 On the 14th of December, in the same year as the execution of the Gandillon family (1598), a tailor
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