An engraving of a werewolf, from the 18th century.
The Aurvegne Werewolf case took place in 1558. It was first recorded by Henri Boguet, a demonologist, in his book titled “Discours des Sorciers” in 1602.
The story starts out like this. A hunter goes up to a man who owns several acres, for permission to hunt on his land. The man agrees, provided that the hunter brings back some of the catch to the landowner. The hunter goes on his way and after several hours of seeing nothing at all, he was attacked by a giant wolf. He tried to shoot it repeatedly, but the wolf wasn’t phased at all or even wounded. The hunter was down to fighting it with just his hands when he managed to grab his knife from his belt. He wasn’t able to kill it, but he did manage to cut off one of the wolf’s enormous paws.
Keeping with the original deal, the hunter returned to the landowner with the wolf’s paw. To the gentleman’s disbelief the paw changed into a woman’s hand with a ring on the finger. He ran into the kitchen where his wife was cooking and found his wife hiding one of her arms in her apron. He grabbed her arm and saw that her hand was missing. The woman later confessed that she transformed herself into a wolf so that she could attend a sabbat. In Ryon, she was then burned alive at the stake.
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