Werewolf witch trials were witch trials combined with werewolf trials. Belief in werewolves developed parallel to the belief in European witches, in the course of the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern period.

2021年10月15日 · Some 200 years before the witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts, courts in Europe were convicting men—and some women—of transforming into werewolves and mutilating and eating children. The...

Beyond allegory, however, history also furnishes us with supposedly genuine tales of werewolves who were discovered, tried, and usually executed. Read on for 12 bone-chilling instances of ‘real’ werewolves. Maurice Sand, ‘Les Lupins’, Paris 1858. Wikimedia Commons.

Thiess of Kaltenbrunn (Kniedini), also spelled Thies, and commonly referred to as the Livonian werewolf, was a Livonian man who was put on trial for heresy in Jürgensburg, Swedish Livonia, in 1692.

2023年8月15日 · Horrifying tales of torture, decapitation, and murder — and those are just the acts committed by the accusers in the werewolf trials of Renaissance Europe. The Salem witch trials of 1692 remain among the most infamous episodes in all of American history.

Peter Stumpp (c. 1530 –1589; name is also spelt as Peter Stube, Peter Stubbe, Peter Stübbe or Peter Stumpf) was a German farmer and alleged serial killer, accused of werewolfery, witchcraft, and cannibalism. He was known as "the Werewolf of Bedburg".

2021年2月16日 · Here is the horrible, horrible truth about the people who were accused of werewolfery in Renaissance-era Europe. Where did the idea of werewolves even come from?

2023年10月31日 · Less public but no less sinister, serial killers certainly existed at the time of the werewolf trials. A French tailor burned alive in 1598 for being a werewolf was found with children’s bones in his house. Jean Grenier was a teenage cannibal …

2023年10月21日 · Peter Stumpp was executed in a brutal fashion, a fitting punishment for his heinous crimes. But was he guilty? And why did many believe him to be a werewolf?

2024年10月29日 · In the shadows of Europe’s infamous witch trials lurked an equally chilling phenomenon: the werewolf trials. During the 16th and 17th centuries, hundreds of people—predominantly men—faced execution for allegedly transforming into wolves and committing horrific acts of violence.