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Although the concept of werewolves has been around for thousands of years, nearly all our modern-day ideas of the creature come from the 1941 movie "The Wolf Man," according to Scott Poole, Ph.D ...
Although claiming that as a werewolf he was a "hound of God", the judges deemed him guilty of trying to turn people away from Christianity, and he was sentenced to be both flogged and banished for life. According to Thiess' account, he and the other werewolves transformed on three nights a year, and then traveled down to Hell.
c.1564 –1589. Country. Holy Roman Empire. State (s) Electorate of Cologne. Date apprehended. 1589. 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 ...
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 ...
Hans the Werewolf. The trial of "Hans the Werewolf" is a typical example of the combined werewolf and witch trials, which dominated witch hunts in Livonia. In 1651, Hans was brought before the court in Idavere accused of being a werewolf at the age of eighteen. He had confessed that he had hunted as a werewolf for two years.
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The so-called "Werewolf of Dole", Gilles Garnier, was executed in 1573 for strangling four children and eating their flesh. [ 62 ] Peter Stumpp, nicknamed the "Werewolf of Bedburg", was executed in October 1589 after accusations of cannibalism and other crimes.
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