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In the mythology of all peoples, werewolves are present. Wolves – have Slavs, Lithuanians, Germans, Anglo-Saxons and Armenians, bears have Scandinavians, foxes of the Japanese, leopards of the Nigerians, etc. Or maybe is there really no smoke without fire?
From mid-14th to early 17th in Europe one after another three flashes of werewolf hunting swept through. The latter was the most mass. Peasants caught and dragged hundreds of people to the court of the Inquisition caught “werewolves”, thousands of suspects were clogged with stakes without every court. There are few protocols of those processes, but they are read as a detective novel. True to women, children and people with a weak mentality, reading them is not recommended.
Werewolf from Dole
In the second half of 1573 around the French city Dole swept a wave of murders of young children. Scared the peasants whispered about the werewolf. Parliament Franche-Comté canceled the existing ban on hunting and urged all men to gather, arm yourself with peaks, halberds and arquebus, search, find and kill werewolf. It was especially stipulated that the participants were not punished raids for the murder will not be incurred.
In mid-November, the werewolf was caught. He turned out to be a beggar Rogue Jean Granier. At the trial, he admitted that he werewolf. Once the devil gave him a miraculous ointment, allowing to turn into a beast. For three years he lived in the forest, stealing children and devouring them. Jean said that he stole and ate about 50 children, especially tasty in his opinion were little girls. January 8 1574, Jean Granier was burnt alive, and the ashes scattered in the wind. The terrible story of Peter Stubbe
At the end of the XVIth neighborhood of the German city of Bedburg a few years terrorized the wolf. Initially, his victims were bulls and cows, but once the beast tasted human beings. In the vicinity of the city became to find the torn remains of people. Usually these were children and young the girls.
In the end, residents hired hunters. Those for a week hunted down the beast and drove him into a trap. However, instead of a huge wolf trapped respected citizen Peter Stubbe. In home found a huge amount of human bones. Stubbe admitted to the killing of 25 men and women and 13 children. Regular serial maniac.
But in court, Stubbe said that most of the murders were committed in the image of a wolf. As a 12-year-old boy, he sold his soul to the devil, for which he received a magic belt that allowed him to turn into the beast. Peter refused to provide the court with a belt, saying that he threw it away, hitting a trap. The place of capture was searched, but the magic belt was not found. Apparently, the devil took his magic gift.
October 31, 1589 Peter Stubbe was executed, his body was cut to pieces, and they put their heads on a peak in the center of the city so that the monster had no followers.
In medieval Europe, in the existence of werewolves no one doubted it. The Roman Church officially collected information from the 16th by the middle of the XVII century, recorded 30,000 cases of transformation people in wolves. According to the data collected, especially “infected” there were territories of France, Germany, Prussia, Bohemia, Silesia, Hungary, Moldova and Wallachia. Of course, much can be attributed to inquisitorial torture. Much, but not all.
The Wolf Man from Allaris
In September 1852, someone was arrested in Toledo (Spain) Manuel Romasanta on charges of killing a constable. During the investigation revealed that Manuel, being a vagrant merchant, in many villages, she offered women assistance in finding work in cities. Many believed and left with him. That’s just the majority women seduced by his tales of fabulous earnings in city, disappeared forever.
Manuel confessed to murder under pressure from collected evidence human. He described in detail where and when each victim died. Accurately named the place and time. But he stated that many were killed by him in the image of a wolf. The court found this a clumsy attempt to divert from blame yourself. However, forensic examiners who studied corpses said that 4 victims were really torn to pieces by the wolf.
The judge, hesitated, did not officially recognize Romasant a werewolf, deciding that 9 deaths would be enough for a death sentence. A 4 deaths remained a mystery.
The existence of werewolves recognized by science
Scientists are sure: there were werewolves. Are studying this An interesting phenomenon is psychiatrists. Lycanthropy disease is known with ancient times. The patient believes that turns into a beast, looking at himself in the mirror, sees his “transformation” and, accordingly, behaves like an animal: barks, howls, crawls on all fours, sleeps on the ground.
The first descriptions date back to the 4th century AD, then lycanthropy considered a kind of melancholy. Byzantine suffered her Emperor Justin II Flavius - in frustrated feelings he is at night walked around the palace and “turned” into a cat (mewed) or a dog (barked).
Our contemporary Dutch physician Jan Dirk Blom raised the archives and studied 56 cases of lycanthropy recorded in the last 160 years. In 13 of them, patients “claimed” the status of a wolf, the rest “turned” into dogs, pythons, frogs and even bees. Naturally, that no one saw the “transformations” except the patients themselves.
Now imagine that the patient has an attack of lycanthropy and he imagined himself a wolf. He went to the moon at night and then “went to hunting. “Once in a lifetime, it’s enough to see a person moving on all fours of a man imitating animal habits – and no one will never convince you that there are no werewolves. And if it also “dozed” maniac killer? Meeting with such a shackled man civilization sick lycanthropy can end tragically.
Hereditary werewolf hunter Gedeminas Graitis from Lithuania believes in werewolves. The first time he saw a werewolf at 13, when the father took him for the first time on the hunt. Gedeminas still preying on them. According to him, the best weapon in the fight against a werewolf is ancient spells and kalashnikov rifle.
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