Bisclavret: The 12th Century French Poem About a Good Man Trapped in Wolf Form by His Wife’s Betrayal
Bisclavret is a lai, a short narrative poem, written by the Anglo-Norman poet Marie de France around 1170, and it […]
Vukodlak: The Slavic Creature That Is Both Werewolf and Vampire and Cannot Decide Which
The Vukodlak is one of the most linguistically and conceptually interesting figures in European supernatural folklore because the same word,
Loup-Garou: The French Werewolf and the Curse That Lasted Seven Years
The Loup-Garou is the werewolf of French tradition, and it differs from the German and Eastern European werewolf in one
Vseslav of Polotsk: The Russian Prince Who Ran as a Wolf at Night and Won Battles by Dawn
Vseslav Bryachislavich, Prince of Polotsk, ruled from 1044 to 1101 and was by any measure one of the most remarkable
The Beast of Gévaudan: The Real Wolf Attacks That Gripped France and Were Never Fully Explained
Between 1764 and 1767 in the Gévaudan region of south-central France, something killed between sixty and a hundred people, mostly
Thiess of Kaltenbrun: The Livonian Werewolf Who Claimed to Fight the Devil and Meant It as a Defence
In 1692 in Livonia, the region that is now Latvia and Estonia, an old man named Thiess was brought before
Jean Grenier: The French Boy Who Said a Stranger Gave Him a Wolf Skin and Nobody Knew What to Do With Him
In 1603 in the Landes region of southwestern France, a thirteen year old boy named Jean Grenier was arrested after
Gilles Garnier: The Hermit of St Bonnot and the Werewolf Trial That Shocked France
In 1573 in the Franche-Comté region of France, a hermit named Gilles Garnier was arrested, tried, and executed for being
Peter Stumpp: The Most Infamous Werewolf Trial in History and the Man Who Confessed to Everything
In 1589 in the German town of Bedburg near Cologne, a farmer named Peter Stumpp was arrested, tried, and executed
Lycaon: The Greek King Who Served Human Flesh to Zeus and Became the World’s First Werewolf
The werewolf has a specific origin point in Western mythology, and it is not medieval Europe. It is ancient Greece,