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Curated catalog of supernatural beings in 10 languages. Mythology, demonology, cryptozoology and folklore documented with relationships, taxonomies and sources.
Thiess of Kaltenbrun
The Livonian werewolf, hound of God
Latvian peasant tried in 1691: he said he turned wolf and went to hell for the stolen grain.
Peter Stumpp
Peter Stumpp, the werewolf of Bedburg executed in 1589
Peter Stumpp was a supposed German lycanthrope executed in 1589 for murdering and devouring children in Bedburg.
Jean Grenier
Jean Grenier, the French lycanthropic boy of the 17th century
Jean Grenier was a 13-year-old French boy who in 1603 confessed to devouring children transformed into a wolf by a demon.
Gilles Garnier
Gilles Garnier, the Werewolf of Dole in 16th-century French lycanthropy
Gilles Garnier was a 16th-century French hermit convicted and executed in Dole for witchcraft and child murders through his transformation into a werewolf by a pact with the devil.
Jacques Roulet
Jacques Roulet, the werewolf of Angers whom Paris declared insane
A beggar from Caude arrested in 1598 beside a boy's body. He confessed to being a wolf, but the Parlement of Paris quashed his death sentence on grounds of insanity.
Hans the Werewolf
Hans the Werewolf, the eighteen-year-old peasant tried in Livonia in 1651
A Livonian peasant tried at Idavere in 1651. He said a man in black had given him a wolf's body, and the court sentenced him to death for witchcraft.
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