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The rougarou legend has been spread for many generations, either directly from French settlers to Louisiana (New France) or via the French Canadian immigrants centuries ago. In the Creole and Cajun legends, the creature is said to prowl the swamps around Acadiana and Greater New Orleans, and the sugar cane fields and woodlands of the regions.
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.
Lougarou (lit. "werewolf" in English; from the French term "Loup garou") is a notorious figure which appears in Mauritian folklore, which is mostly used to scare children; its appearance may result from the combination of French and African folklore stories. The Lougarou appears at full moon and brings trouble to the local population.
Geomythology (also called “legends of the earth," "landscape mythology," “myths of observation,” “natural knowledge") is the study of oral and written traditions created by pre-scientific cultures to account for, often in poetic or mythological imagery, geological events and phenomena such as earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, tsunamis, land formation, fossils, and natural features of the ...
Vivian is a sixteen-year-old loup-garoux who has just started high school in a new town, she explains the circumstances that brought her there; formerly, she and her pack lived in another town, the teenage pack members started to become more feral, using their wolf forms to scare humans, one day, a loup-garoux named Axel lost control, killed a human girl and was witnessed changing back from ...
The Werewolves of Millers Hollow (French: Les Loups-garous de Thiercelieux, or sometimes only referred as Loups-garous) is a card game created by the French authors Philippe des Pallières and Hervé Marly that can be played with 8 to 47 players. [1]
Loup Garou (French for werewolf) is an album released in 1995 by Willy DeVille. First released in Europe in 1995 on the EastWest label , it was released the following year in the United States on the Discovery label .
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]