The Werewolf Faith in Nineteenth-century France Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog
Dr. Beachcombing admits he has a weakness for the werewolf subject, having devoted several recent posts to the shape-shifting man-beast of lore. As a way of easing into different topics in the near future, Beachcombing breaks off the current werewolf series by "paying tribute to the man who many years ago first introduced the werewolf to polite English society: that priestly Victorian loon, exaggerator and bizarrist, Sabine Baring-Gould." Thus Beachcombing comes to Baring-Gould's account, supposedly true, of his meeting with the people of a tiny French village around the year 1850 and the warning the villagers gave about the presence of the "loup-garoux." Did the werewolf legend hold sway in an 1850s era Gaulish hamlet, or was Baring-Gould exaggerating? Elsewhere, Loren Coleman and his Portland, ME, establishment that features displays of just about all-things-cryptozoological gets a fine and well-deserved write up from a visitor who admitted having worked for half a decade for arch-debunker and inveterate skeptic James Randi, as seen in inquisitive skeptic Jeff Wagg's IndieSkeptics presentation of A Visit to the International Cryptozoology Museum, with photos and an enhanced video version of the Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film. And at Cryptomundo Coleman offers a link to Christopher Noel's work on a recent section of video footage that offers a possible Sasquatch image, as presented in Enhanced Bigfoot Security Cam Video.
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