Tagged: werwolf

Werewolf with child and torn up bodies, Lucas Cranach (I), 1510 - 1515 - detail

Peter Stumpp, werewolf or political scapegoat

Peter Stumpp (c. 1535 – 1589, also spelled as Peter Stubbs, Peter Stube, Peter Stubbe, Peter Stübbe or Peter Stumpf) was a German farmer and alleged serial killer, accused of werewolfery, incest, witchcraft and...

russian vampire

The real vampire in Russia and Slavonic countries

Vampire stories or stories of animated corpses were numerous in Russian and Slavonic folklore, all of them based on the same belief—that in certain cases the dead, in a material shape, leave their graves...