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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".
Stumpp was accused of killing 16 people, including thirteen children, three women, two men and his own son, according to the University of Saskatchewan. Two of the three women Stumpp allegedly ...
Between 1589 and 1661, six men were executed for sorcery, in which three are confirmed to have been executed explicitly for being werewolves. [21] The most famous of them were the case of Peter Stumpp. In 1598, Jan van Calster was accused of having bitten two children in the shape of a wolf, but he was acquitted from charges.
The dead reportedly included no women or children. [14] [97] Mary, Queen of Scots: 8 February 1587: The 44-year-old queen of Scotland was told that she was to be executed for plotting the assassination of her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I. However, when the executioner, only known as Bull, prepared to chop off her head with an axe, the first blow ...
Are Werewolves Real (Alamy Stock Photo) ... After reportedly confessing to the gruesome acts, Stumpp was tortured, then executed, in a horrific public display on Halloween, 1589. ... Peter Stumpp ...
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 ...
The federal government put Lisa Montgomery to death early Wednesday morning, the first time it has executed a woman since 1953. Montgomery got the death sentence in 2008 for killing a pregnant ...
Robbed and murdered several people. Executed in 1871; last person to be publicly executed in Austria-Hungary. [142] Juan Díaz de Garayo: Spain: 1870–1879: 6: Known as El Sacamantecas ("The Fat Extractor"). Strangled women after having sex with them—first willingly, then by force. Garroted in 1881. [143] La Bande de la Taille ("The Carving ...