{"id":2818,"date":"2017-12-08T14:10:16","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T13:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valdesina.it\/?p=2818\/"},"modified":"2017-12-08T14:02:17","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T13:02:17","slug":"the-bestiary-of-waldensian-valleys-loup-garou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valdesina.it\/en\/2017\/12\/08\/the-bestiary-of-waldensian-valleys-loup-garou\/","title":{"rendered":"The bestiary of Waldensian Valleys \u2013 Loup garou"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I want to tell you about a folkloric creature, often spotted in Waldensian Valleys. I\u2019m talking about a mixed one, half canine and half human, with a unrestrainable ferocity and the very bad habit of eating all the unlucky ones that bump into it. Yes, I\u2019m talking about the werewolf, also known in the Valleys as loup garou<\/em> or loup ravat<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Since ancient times, the wolf has always stimulated our imagination with a mixture of admiration and fear. It appears in the myths of many cultures in all the world, from Mexico to North America, from Scandinavia to Middle East. But it\u2019s during Middle Ages that, in the collective imagination of Europeans, the wolf turned in a fictional creature, evil and dangerous: the werewolf.
\nTo find the origins of this legend we have to travel back in time, when the wolf started to be feared because its habitat was overlapping the human settlements, because of a growth in population. Its attacks against livestock became more and more recurring and the wolf started to be perceived as a threat to our very survival. In the following centuries the fantasy, fueled by famine and fear, gave birth to the dreadful idea of the wolf concealing behind human aspect: he could even be your neighbour, just like happens in this legend I\u2019ve already told you<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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In another story from Waldensian Valleys it\u2019s told that, a day, two farmers were mowing the grass in a lawn, when the youngest one found, behind a rock, a wolf skin. \u00abLeave it there\u00bb, said the other one, \u00abit brings bad luck!\u00bb. But the boy didn\u2019t pay attention to him and, acting like a boaster, wore it over his head. All at once, his face changed and he started to shout \u00abdrop it! Put it off me! Or I\u2019m going to eat all of you\u00bb. Just after the other farmer relieved him from the wolf skin, and after the youngest one went beyond the shock, he said he felt an unrestrainable desire of bite human flesh.<\/p>\n

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And what about you? Do you know other stories like this? Write me<\/a>, I can\u2019t wait the time to hear them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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