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"Rougarou" represents a variant pronunciation and spelling of the original French loup-garou. [1] According to Barry Jean Ancelet, an academic expert on Cajun folklore and professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in America, the tale of the rougarou is a common legend across French Louisiana. [2]
The Soucouyant is a folklore character who appears as a reclusive old woman (or man) by day. By night, they strip off their wrinkled skin and put it in a mortar. In the form of a fireball, they fly across the dark sky in search of a victim. The Soucouyants can enter the home of their victim through any sized hole such as cracks and keyholes.
There is a belief in a galipote capable of turning exclusively into a dog, known as lugaru (a term that seems to come from the French loup-garou, a name used for the legendary werewolf or lycanthrope). [2] This suggests that the legend of the Galipote has a European basis (werewolf), mixed with African elements, in a Christian background. [1]
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 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 ...
The "Ligahoo" or "Loup Garou" is a shape-changer, a man who has power over nature and the capacity to change form to that of an animal. In Caribbean Myths, the Loup-Garou is a man who made a deal with the devil to have the ability to change form (to a werewolf) so that at night, he could go around killing without ever being caught. [17]
Loki (Norse mythology) – God of night; Lo-lol – Hideous monster; Lóng – Chinese dragon; Long Ma – Dragon-horse hybrid; Loogaroo (French America) – Shapeshifting, female vampire; Lou Carcolh – Snake-mollusk hybrid; Loup-garou – Werewolf; Loveland frog (American Folklore) – Cryptid, Humanoid Frog
He was sometimes seen in human shape, and sometimes as a "loup-garou". [ 8 ] It was claimed by the early 17th century that "Garnier" or "Grenier" was a common name among people accused of being werewolves, naming Jean Grenier, his father as well as his son Pierre, and François and Estienne Garnier as examples.