Wolves-Garous,
Animals of Gevaudan and besides....
Ancient Sources
At the 5th front century. J - C, HERODOTE in its Stories mentions already the garous. In Ier front century. J - C. DIODORE of SICILY with its Historical Library, VIRGILE with Moéris, OVIDE with the legend of Lycaon, leave us imperishable texts. But the myth of the werewolf is much older and goes up at the night of times.
Old sources
The old philosophers, doctors and scientists highly were interested in the wolves-garous. Thus as of Ier century ap. J.-C., SIDE ( Athens) abundantly maintains us their existence, which confirms PETRONE with its History of Niceros. PLINE the OLD one and its Naturalis Historia and PAUSANIAS with its Description of Greece in IIème century ap.J. - C, ORIBASE (Constantinople IVème century), inform us of the presence of lycanthropes. Come then doctor AETIUS (Rome 5th VIème centuries), Paul of EGINE (Alexandria VIIème century), which water us anecdotes on the porphyrie.
At the medieval time, Marie of FRANCE writes the Lay one of Bisclavaret in 1180. Strange Roman of Guillaume de Palerne appears a few times later without one knowing exactly on which date. The Celtic tale Arthur and Gorlagon is dated from XIVème century. Finally the Dead of Arthur of MALORY is published in 1470. Of the Middle Ages to the Rebirth, an avalanche of writers, judges, inquisiteurs and scientists doctors put part to maintain us their dear studies at the same time based on serious research and their phantasms. In 1486 Dominican inquisiteurs SPRENGER and KRAMER publish their famous Malleus Maleficarum in Frankfurt. In 1548 in Paris, doctor FERNEL is the author of Abditis Rerum Causis, doctor WIER in Basle bequeaths us his De Preaestigüs Daemonum, in 1563, the large Ambroise AVOIDS continues with Monsters and Wonders, published in Paris in 1573. Judge BODIN, always in Paris in 1580 delivers démonomanie of the wizards to us, the humanistic SCOT publishes in London in 1584, The Discoverie of Witchcraft, in Lyon the judge BUGGY writes his Speech of the wizards in 1590, in 1591 the famous doctor of Leipzig, WOLFESHUSIUS publishes his De Lycanthropis, judge REMY gives his Daemonolatria in 1595 in Lyon. It is now to king d' Angleterre, JACQUES Ier to make known his Daemonologie in Edinburgh in 1597, the Jesuit and former judge LED RIO leaves his Disquisitonum Magicarum to Leuwen in 1599, continuous historian GOULART with his Stories admirable and memorable in 1607, sadly Juge celebrates and Inquisiteur of LANCRE sees publishing in Paris in 1613 its Table of the inconstancy of the bad angels and demons. In 1614, WEBSTER gives its Duchess of Amalfi. Lycanthropie, the work of the doctor of NYNAULD, is published in Paris in 1615. CERVANTES, in Los Trabajos de Persilès y Sigismunda, in 1617, adds its stone to the building of the garous of all the countries. It is with the humanistic BURTON and its The Anatomy of melancholy published in Londre into 1621 that we will conclude this enumeration from works which, recognize, is it far from to be exaustive... Ajoutons in connection with last quoted title, which at the time it was of good tone to believe that the lycanthropie was the result of an insupportable melancholy.
Let us retain that if all the works referred to above and low, largely describe cases of lycantropie and of porphyrie, they involve us also sometimes worms of other malefic monstrosities. Thus, not the nécrosadiques ones are not forgotten, the vampires and their ancestors, the lamies, the striges, the empuses, the onoscèles, the oupires, the brucolaques ones, the goules and others succubes and incubate and even the excommunicated suitable ones for transform itself passively or voluntarily into garous and vampires. The Rumanian legends of Transylvania which refer to Vlad Dracul more known under the name of count Dracula, or the nickname of Vlad Empaleur (its favorite distraction was indeed to impale Turkish per thousands), evoke for the majority its terrible and douleureuses alternative transformations into vampire or a werewolf, reason for which we mention here this character as alarming as historical. We should say that there is still a great number of alternatives on the topic of the werewolf. For example, the bears-garous, the panthers-garous, the cats-garous (Raminagrobis say also Grippeminaud was often regarded as an ogre-chat. Actually it of it is nothing and it is indeed an enormous cheating tom cat-garou, patelin and in devil, which devoured the smallest animals that him and especially children not wise.) dogs-garous, foxes-garous, snakes-garous, beuf-garous inter alia... The works concerning these creatures would too largely exceed the framework of our bibliogarous... A little humour with the beufs-garous, you know that the study of their manners names the BOUSANTROPHIE...
