Beast of gevaudan

La Bête du Gévaudan was a real wolf-like monster prowling the Auvergne and South Dordogne areas of France during the years 1764 to 1767, killing about 100 people, often in bizarre circumstances

Walton Ford explores the relationship between humans and animals in artist's first show in Paris.

To start, I have no significant qualms about constitutional monarchies. Truthfully, I find some value in giving a population a figurehead to rally around as well as in the benefits of training someone throughout his or her life to become such a leader. Absolute monarchies, by contrast, are much more problematic. In French history, while a constitutional monarchy could have served to benefit the French people in the manner of say the modern Australian, British, Canadian, etc. systems of…

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The tale of the beast of Gévaudan grew in the telling, but still killed nearly 100. Read more at smithsonianmag.com | History | Lore | Beats | Wild Animals | Supernatural |

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To keep this thing in focus, let’s consider only the werewolves of the movies/TV, ‘kay? Maybe I’ll do a “most badass werewolf of Literature” some other time. Which beast would get your vote? Like, if they all were put into an arena and had to fight it out, last werewolf standing, which werewolf would be

Illustrations of a mysterious and terrifying animal that terrorised a small region of France in the 1760s.