Tagged: werewolf trials

Lukas Mayer – Die Hinrichtung Peter Stump – The execution of Peter Stump -1589

05/17/2022

Peter Stumpp: Werewolf of Bedburg or Political Scapegoat?

Peter Stumpp (1535,- 1589), also known as Peter Stubbe, Stube, Stumpf, Stübbe, and Stubbe Peeter, was executed near Cologne on 31 October 1589 after being accused of murder, cannibalism, incest, sorcery, and transforming himself...

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

Folklore / Vampirology

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...