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Peter Stumpp (c. 1530 –1589; name is also spelt as Peter Stube, Peter Stubbe, Peter Stübbe or Peter Stumpf) was a German farmer and alleged serial killer, accused of werewolfery, witchcraft, and cannibalism. He was known as "the Werewolf of Bedburg".
Composite woodcut print by Lukas Mayer of the execution of Peter Stumpp in 1589 at Bedburg near Cologne. Werewolf witch trials were witch trials combined with werewolf trials. Belief in werewolves developed parallel to the belief in European witches, in the course of the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern period.
Peter Stumpp's alleged crimes and execution remain one of the most ... One of the most famous figures in history to carry such a reputation was a 16th-century German farmer named Peter Stumpp, who ...
The execution of Peter Stumpp, involving the breaking wheel in use in Cologne in the early modern period. Johann Patkul was a Livonian gentleman who was condemned on charges of treason by Swedish king Charles XII in 1707.
After reportedly confessing to the gruesome acts, Stumpp was tortured, then executed, in a horrific public display on Halloween, 1589. ... Peter Stumpp, the real monsters might just be the ones ...
Peter Stumpp, nicknamed the "Werewolf of Bedburg", was executed in October 1589 after accusations of cannibalism and other crimes. An unidentified man (his name may have been Nicolas Damont ) was burned at the stake in 1598 for the murders of 50 children in the French town of Châlons-en-Champagne after their remains were found in his home ...
Peter Stumpp (1589) known as "the Werewolf of Bedburg" Nicholas Todd Sutton (2020) most recent execution in Tennessee and via electric chair; François Tomasini (1914) Jean-Baptiste Troppmann (1870) known as "the Human Tiger" Joseph Vacher (1898) known as "the French Ripper" Sek Kim Wah (1988) Singapore's first serial killer
A cold-hearted triggerman finally copped to the “execution-style” 2022 killing of his friend on a Long Island Rail Road train in Suffolk County. Nicholas D’Agostino, 21, pleaded guilty ...