France, Dole 1573~ Gilles Garnier

During the summer of 1573, the partially devoured corpses of several slaughtered children were found in the area of
Dole, and a number of local peasants claimed to have spied a strange wolf-like beast with Garnier's face. In November
of the year a group of villagers, following the sound of a young girl's terrified screams discovered her still alive but
badly wounded in the clutches of a huge wolf fitting this description. Although the wolf escaped, Garnier was arrested a
few days later, together with his wife. At the trials, Garnier freely confessed to two of the killings attributed to this
creature, and even states that he had taken home a portion from one of the bodies of his victims which was eaten by
his wife. Not surprisingly, both defendants were found guilty and were burned alive in January 1574.

France, Claude 1598~ Jacques Rollet

Jacques Rollet from Caude in western France, who had murdered and eaten several people before he was captured
in 1598 while dismembering yet another victim. After hearing his claim that he could transform himself into a wolf and
seeing that he was clearly mentally subnormal, the judge committed him to a lunatic asylum.

France, Bordeauz 1603~ Jean Grenier

A similar case featured Jean Grenier, a mentally retarded teenage shepherd from the Bordeaux region, who bragged
that while in a guise of a wolf he had killed and devoured more than 50 children. He was apprehended because he
was a clumsy murderer. The corroborating evidence recorded the disappearance of children from the community, and
the discoveries of partially eaten children, and the sightings of a man-wolf attacking children. In his trial he confessed to
an uncontrollable appetite for the flesh of young girls, Jean told the court that he had been transformed into a wolf
through the salve and wolf skin given to him by the Man of the Forest. The court found him deficient mentally, which
deluded him into thinking he was a werewolf, and was incapable of socialization, and therefore could not be executed
for the crimes that he had committed. Although he did not plead insanity, the judge found him incapable of rational
thought. Following his trial, Grenier was given to the care of a local Franciscan monastery where he spent the rest of
his life.

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