The Beast of Primarette

[lordmongrove]

https://johnknifton.com/2015/10/16/the-beast-of-primarette/#comment-11518

Another wolf-like man eater form 18th century France.

 

[blessmycottonsocks]

Fascinating to read the priest's account.
He sounds like a more down-to-Earth man than some of his parishioners.
The proliferation of acorns, presumably attracted deer, wild pigs, squirrels and other rodents to the vicinity, which in turn attracted "predatory wolves". I liked curé Favre's scathing words that "the common populace believe the beasts to be werewolves and nothing will change their foolish credulity."

The French Wiki site links to similar accounts from south-east France from around the same time of the beast of Gévaudan and beast of Lyonnais, both of which seem very wolf-like although, in the first case, is described as having unnaturally long legs.

 

[lordmongrove]

18th century France had a number of these beast attacks.

 

[Hannah Faulkner]

If these sketches are roughly accurate it amazing how they managed to exist in France.

 

[chicorea]

Just to clarify a little better, the Beast of Gévaudan seemed extremely atypical even for the people used to live side by side with wolves. The fur was too short and too red, with black stripes. The mouth was too big for a wolf. Wolves lives in packs, this was a lonely beast. The Beast was not shy as wolves can be in the presence of humans. It could make its way in the middle of herds of domestic animals heading straight to women or children. And so on... Some believed in hyenas, stray war dogs or even thylacines, but nobody can have any idea of what it was or where it came from.