Fallen Angels . . . and Spirits of the Dark by Masello Robert

Author:Masello, Robert [Masello, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2014-06-30T16:00:00+00:00

WHAT DID WEREWOLVES DO ALL NIGHT?

Once transformed, the werewolf could become either wholly a wolf, though an extra large and strong one, or a hybrid — a wolf with a man’s hands, for instance. Either way, he spent the night hours in exclusively wolflike activities: hunting, howling, devouring his prey.

It was in his choice of prey that the werewolf differed from other members of the pack. The werewolf might pursue the same domestic animals, sheep and cattle and goats, that the other wolves did, but his heart wasn’t really in it — the werewolf preferred human flesh, the younger the better. And given the choice, girls before boys.

In several famous werewolf cases, the perpetrators all confessed to the same cravings. Jean Grenier, in seventeenth-century France, proudly announced that he had hunted down and eaten many young girls (and was imprisoned in a monastery for his crimes). Pierre Bourgot, in 1502, claimed that he had broken the neck of a nine-year-old girl and devoured her. (He was executed.) And Peter Stubb, in sixteenth-century Germany, declared that he had made a pact with the Devil. In return for his allegiance, the Devil gave Stubb a wolfskin belt (or “girdle”) which he had only to put on in order to change himself; an English pamphlet, printed in 1590, described him then as “a greedy devouring wolf, strong and mighty, with eyes great and large, which in the night sparkled like unto brands of fire, a mouth great and wide, with most sharp and cruel teeth, a huge body, and mighty paws.” Thus transformed, Stubb roamed and ravaged the countryside around Cologne.

“He would walk up and down,” according to the English account, “and if he could spy either maid, wife, or child that his eyes liked and his heart lusted after [werewolves were also known as rapists], he would wait their issuing out of the city or town, and if he could by any means get them alone, he would in the fields ravish them, and after in his wolfish likeness cruelly murder them.”

When Stubb was finally captured by a band of men and a pack of baying hounds, he was asked to produce this magic girdle he claimed the Devil had given him. But Stubb explained that he had shed it during the chase; when a concerted search failed to turn it up, the townsmen assumed it must have been reacquired by the Devil. Stubb, who confessed to twenty-five years’ worth of barbarous crimes, was tortured (the skin from his body ripped away with red-hot pincers), beheaded, and then burned. His head was mounted on a pole and displayed outside the town of Bedburg.

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