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The Beast of Gévaudan, “a calf-sized men-eating wolf” that attacked about 210 people, resulting in 113 deaths (98 of them were partly eaten), between 1764 and 1767

09/07/2019

Historical Werewolf Cases in Europe: Lycanthropy, Werewolf Trials and Folklore

Werewolves belong to the oldest and most persistent supernatural traditions of Europe. Long before the werewolf became a monster of horror movies—a human transformed into a wolf by a bite and condemned to change...

Opening of a vampire grave | Russian vampire

Folklore / Vampirology

09/02/2019

The Vampire in Russia: Upir, Upyr and the Origins of Slavic Vampire Folklore

Vampire stories and accounts of animated corpses were once widespread throughout Russia and the Slavic world. Behind their many regional variations lies the same disturbing idea: under certain circumstances, the dead may return in...