Lycanthropy: forest demon captured in Germany in 1531 (1669)

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Lycanthropy: forest demon captured in Germany in 1531 (1669)

Lycanthropy: forest demon captured in Germany in 1531 (1669). This creature was said to inhabit forests round Salzburg and Hamburg. it was perhaps a witch wearing an uncured skin, a primitive rite which could have given rise to the werewolf legend. From an edition of Historiae animalum by Conrad Gesner

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