Bloodthirsty trials

In Greek mythology, Lycaon king of Arcadia tested Zeus by serving him the roasted flesh of his son Nyctimus, in order to see whether Zeus was truly omniscient. The concept of humans transforming into wolves goes back millennia. In the Epic of Gilgamesh from Mesopotamia in B. In Greek mythology , King Lycaon of Arcadia tests Zeus's omnipotence by feeding him disguised human remains and is turned into a werewolf as punishment.

His name is the root of the term lycanthropy— used for both changing into a werewolf and the delusion of being one, a recognized psychiatric condition for several centuries. Werewolves also figured into the folklore of the Middle Ages , but they were usually benign characters who shape-shifted into beasts against their will and were desperate to return to human form. Charges that real people could be menacing werewolves surfaced as part of the witch trials that swept through parts of Europe in the s.

Officials in the Valais region of Switzerland conducted large-scale prosecutions, blaming witches for crop failures, lameness, blindness, infertility and impotence—as well as adopting wolf forms and mutilating cattle.

According to some accounts, s everal hundred men and women were convicted and burned at the stake in Valais starting in , often with a sack of gunpowder around their necks. Any land they owned automatically transferred to the local vassal of the King, which may have spurred the accusations.

Werewolf beheaded and two witches burned at the stake by the Inquisition. There, as elsewhere in Europe, political and religious upheavals heightened tensions. And Christianity was struggling to overcome regional pagan traditions, making fertile ground for fanciful accusations, according to Rolf Schulte, a German expert on witch and werewolf hunts, in his book Man as Witch.

In , inquisitors appointed by the Pope presided over several trials of alleged werewolfery. Two shepherds, Pierre Burgot and Michel Verdun, confessed to making a pact with the Devil in exchange for food: meeting with a man in black who gave them an ointment that turned them into werewolves, then attending midnight witch gatherings and hunting and eating children.

Both were convicted and burned at the stake, along with a third who refused to confess. Subsequent werewolf trials often featured similar details: men in black, a magic salve, belts or skins that turned the accused into wolves, attending witch ceremonies late at night and going on bloodthirsty rampages. Supposed eyewitnesses testified to seeing huge, glowing eyes and long, pointed teeth and beasts running with superhuman speed. Contesting the Church's authority, the secular Parliament in Dole soon took charge of werewolf prosecutions, at one point encouraging citizens "to assemble armed with clubs, halberds, pikes, arquebuses and other cudgels This site makes extensive use of JavaScript.

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