Werewolves
Werewolves:
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Europe, lots of people believed in werewolves. So many stories about werewolves were going around that it created hysteria. People accused of being Werewolves were arrested and put on trial, and if convicted they were immediately put to death.
1589, Germany
After a big wolf was terrorizing a small town in Germany,
Peter Stubb was arrested and placed on trial for being a werewolf after being tortured, he finally confessed to practising black magic, he said that the devil gave him a magic belt that made him turn into a wolf. After he was sentenced to death the magic belt was never found.
One of the most celebrated cases was Adrian Jefficheff - a man from the Caucasus Mountains in Russia. His young son was also afflicted by the condition. Though Adrian amassed a great fortune, it all meant little to him. He believed that his condition had doomed his soul to to eternal damnation.
Adrian's son went on to become a huge commercial success himself as "Jojo": The Wolf Boy -perhaps the single most famous wolfman act in carnival history. His manager maintained that Jojo had been raised by wolves in the Russian forests where he'd been captured by trappers.
In public, he only barked and growled, but behind the hairy facade, Jojo fluently spoke four languages and was considered a keenly intelligent individual by those who knew him well.
Stephan Bibrowski - aka Lionel was aptly nicknamed - was almost completely covered with tawny hair. except for the soles of his feet and palms of his hands.
In 1570 a wolf had killed several children in the area of Lyon, France. A local hermit who lived in a cave - Gilles Granier - was found scavenging a dead body. He was accused of being a werewolf and through intimidation forced to confess to it. He was burned alive on 1573.
Facts:
Between 1520 and 1630, there were over 32,000 werewolf trials in France!
You can become a werewolf by many different ways but here's the most common:
1. got a bite or scratch from a werewolf.
2. Were born into a family with the werewolf curse.
Weapons against a werewolf:
Silver Bullets.
(more to come soon.)
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Europe, lots of people believed in werewolves. So many stories about werewolves were going around that it created hysteria. People accused of being Werewolves were arrested and put on trial, and if convicted they were immediately put to death.
1589, Germany
After a big wolf was terrorizing a small town in Germany,
Peter Stubb was arrested and placed on trial for being a werewolf after being tortured, he finally confessed to practising black magic, he said that the devil gave him a magic belt that made him turn into a wolf. After he was sentenced to death the magic belt was never found.
One of the most celebrated cases was Adrian Jefficheff - a man from the Caucasus Mountains in Russia. His young son was also afflicted by the condition. Though Adrian amassed a great fortune, it all meant little to him. He believed that his condition had doomed his soul to to eternal damnation.
Adrian's son went on to become a huge commercial success himself as "Jojo": The Wolf Boy -perhaps the single most famous wolfman act in carnival history. His manager maintained that Jojo had been raised by wolves in the Russian forests where he'd been captured by trappers.
In public, he only barked and growled, but behind the hairy facade, Jojo fluently spoke four languages and was considered a keenly intelligent individual by those who knew him well.
Stephan Bibrowski - aka Lionel was aptly nicknamed - was almost completely covered with tawny hair. except for the soles of his feet and palms of his hands.
In 1570 a wolf had killed several children in the area of Lyon, France. A local hermit who lived in a cave - Gilles Granier - was found scavenging a dead body. He was accused of being a werewolf and through intimidation forced to confess to it. He was burned alive on 1573.
Facts:
Between 1520 and 1630, there were over 32,000 werewolf trials in France!
You can become a werewolf by many different ways but here's the most common:
1. got a bite or scratch from a werewolf.
2. Were born into a family with the werewolf curse.
Weapons against a werewolf:
Silver Bullets.
(more to come soon.)
posted by Cafegurl at 2:15 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home