It’s ‘I Put a Spell on You’ Month all October! Happy Halloween!!
There is an ancient legend that proclaims: “Darkness falls across the land/ The midnight hour is close at hand/ And whosoever shall be found/ Without the soul for getting down/ Must stand and face the hounds of hell/ And rot inside a corpse’s shell/ The foulest stench is in the air/ The funk of forty thousand years/ And grizzly ghouls from every tomb/ Are closing in to share your doom/ And though you fight to stay alive/ Your body starts to shiver/ For no mere mortal can resist/ The evil of the thriller.” Or maybe that’s a Michael Jackson song, I can never remember. At any rate, prepare to stand and face the hounds of hell, this week we are talking werewolves! That’s right from Lycanthropy, to the Beast of Gevaudan, to Rabies and the scientific superhero Louis Pasteur; we will be asking if this legend’s bark is as bad as its bite.
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SOURCES
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy
DOGMAN AND WEREWOLF SIGHTINGS IN PA – Mysterious PA
Supernatural Lore of Pennsylvania: Ghosts, Monsters and Miracles edited by Thomas White
The Legend of ‘Dog Boy’ – Arkansas Online
Top 5 urban legends from Quebec, including tales of a flying canoe and werewolf
New Orleans Ghosts – Paranormal & Occult Research Society
Rougarou keeps its claws in local lore – Houma Today
Monsters and myths: Beware the ‘loup-garou’ – CBC
Encyclopedia of American Folklore By Linda S. Watts
Cajun and Creole Folktales: The French Oral Tradition of South Louisiana by Barry Jean Ancelet
Beastly Burdens: Investigating The Menacing Loup-Garou, Quebec’s Werewolf – Week in Weird
Do you believe in spirits? – The Sun Times
Monsters of the Gévaudan: The Making of a Beast By Jay M. Smith
The Beast of Gevaudan – Dark Stories
Just What WAS the Beast of Gevaudan? – John Knifton
Sherlock Holmes and the Beast of Gevaudan
