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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 ...
Werewolf: The Apocalypse is a role-playing game of the Classic World of Darkness game series by White Wolf Publishing. Other related products include the collectible card games named Rage and several novels (including one series). In the game, players take the role of werewolves known as "Garou". These werewolves are locked in a two-front war ...
The book describes fourteen sites of spiritual power, called "caerns", that are sacred to each of the tribes of the Garou (werewolves). [2] Each Caern description is written by a different author. [3] Locales range from Tibet to Arizona, China and Ireland. Each entry has details of the history, important personalities, and points of interest. [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 ...
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]
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.
Tera frees Dresden and tells him that MacFinn, her fiancé, is a loup-garou, the most dangerous type of werewolf. Unless MacFinn is placed within a containment circle before the next full moon, he will transform and kill again. Dresden was shot during his escape from police custody.