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This coincides with the French Catholic loup-garou stories, according to which the method for turning into a werewolf is to break Lent seven years in a row. [citation needed] A common blood sucking legend says that the rougarou is under the spell for 101 days. After that time, the curse is transferred from person to person when the rougarou ...
Le loup-garou (The Werewolf) is a 19th Century opéra comique in one act in French with music by Louise Bertin and a libretto by Eugène Scribe and Jacques Féréol Mazas. [1] The work is a comedy inspired by the fairy tale of "Beauty and the Beast." [2] It was first performed on March 10, 1827 by the Opéra-Comique in Paris. [3]
In folklore, a werewolf [a] (from Old English werwulf 'man-wolf'), or occasionally lycanthrope [b] (from Ancient Greek λυκάνθρωπος, lykánthrōpos, 'wolf-human'), is an individual who can shape-shift into a wolf, or especially in modern film, a therianthropic hybrid wolf-like creature, either purposely or after being placed under a curse or affliction, often a bite or the occasional ...
As a result, he says countless people were burned at the stake for the crime of being a 'loup-garou' or man-wolf. In fact, according to Woods, the practice of burning and executing werewolves ...
In keeping with the traditional werewolf lore, silver is poisonous when introduced into the bloodstream, often proving fatal, and death is a real danger in that "anything that will sever the spine will do". Loup-garou is the French word for "werewolf". Its plural form is loups-garous. A faux-French plural could be loups-garoux.
The term "Loogaroo" also used to describe the soucouyant, possibly comes from the French word for werewolf: Loup-garou; often confused with each other since they are pronounced the same. [10] In Haiti, what would be considered a werewolf, is called jé-rouges ("red eyes"). [11] As in Haiti, the Loogaroo is also common in Mauritian culture.
Loup-garou – Werewolf; Loveland frog (American Folklore) – Cryptid, Humanoid Frog; Lubber fiend – House spirit; Luduan – Truth-detecting animal; Lugat – Vampire; Lui-kong-tsiau – Thunderbird; Luison – Werewolf | Cadaver-eating dog; Lusca – Sea Monster; Lutin – Amusing goblin
The Werewolf of Dole, Gilles Garnier was a reclusive hermit living outside the town of Dole in the Franche-Comté Province in France.He had recently been married and moved his new wife out to his isolated home.