Welcome to this weeks gallery all themed on the werewolf of Gévaudan. Please note images below do depicts attacks by werewolf like creatures. They are all real historical illustrations. For a great place to do research please visit https://pdimagearchive.org/ Information and Images sourced from Public Domain. In the 1760s, nearly three hundred people were killed in a remote region of south-central France, called the Gévaudan. The killer was thought to be a huge animal, also known as the beast. But what was this beast, a large bear, a wolf or a real werewolf? Illustrators had a field day representing the Beast, whose appearance was reported to be so monstrous it beggared belief. One poster, printed in 1764, described it as follows: Reddish brown with dark ridged stripe down the back. Resembles wolf/hyena but big as a donkey. Long gaping jaw, six claws, pointy upright ears and supple furry tail.m Mobile like a cat’s and can knock you over. Cry: more like hors...
