Story about Werewolves
Are werewolves real or are they just part of stories engineered to stand our hair on end? Are they the’real deal’ or simply the figment of the fruitful imagination of horror story writers? I will let you decide.
It happened in Britain in 1591. The details are a little dodgy because the only remaining written account was taken from a 16-page pamphlet that was written about the events. Just two copies remain. Many records of the period were destroyed during wars that have been fought in the area over the centuries. But here’s what we all know :
There were a rash of hideous deaths in the country around the German cities Cologne and Bedburg. The accounts are really gruesome ( half-eaten human remains ). A few people cornered a large wolf that was thought to be responsible for the deaths and set their dogs on it. They started to attack the wolf with sharp sticks and spears. The wolf failed to try and run away or to protect itself. It stood up on its hind legs, and the townspeople recognized him as a middle aged man. He was Peter Stubbe from the same hamlet.
Stubbe was put on the torture wheel. He finally admitted to having murdered, drank the blood of, and eaten 16 people, including 2 pregnant girls and 13 children. According to the sketchy accounts of these events, Stubbe began to practice sorcery when he was 12. Ultimately he began to take the guise of a wolf. When he was in the form of a wolf, he would rip the throats of his victims and drink their blood and then eat their flesh.
Stubbe was attempted, found guilty, and executed. The execution was a slightly grim affair. His skin was pulled off with a red-hot pincer. His legs and arms were all broken and his head was cut off. What was left was burned to ashes.
Stubbe’s brutality and savagery were beastly and his acts were easily associated with the behaviour of a wolf. People started to believe that such part-human/part-wolf creatures were living among them and they called them werewolves.
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