Lycanthrope boy or miscarriage of justice? (9 photos)

This is a thing of centuries gone by. Very strange and scary especially considering that the defendant was a 13-year-old teenager.





The French judge Pierre de Lancre wrote a book in 1612, dedicated to otherworldly dark and light entities, in which he described this case. The story happened to a 13-year-old boy, Jean Grenier.



Illustration from de Lancre's book "Tableau de l'Inconstance des Mauvais Anges et Demons"

In the spring of 1603, three friends were tending sheep outside their villages. Jeanne Gaborian was already an adult, 18 years old. Her friend Marguerite Poirier is 3 years younger, and the third girl is barely 13 years old.

They looked after the peacefully chewing wards and talked about urgent. Recently, many wolves. One even attacked Margarita a couple of weeks ago. And a few more children are gone. Presumably they were dragged away by gray predators. Saved the girl a gnarled stick with which she was able to fend off the beast. margarita remembered that the animal was smaller than its ordinary relatives and light brown, not grey.



At this time, the dogs that looked after the sheep howled, and the girls rushed to find out what had happened. In a beam on a large stump a boy was sitting looks 8-9 years old (in reality he was already 13). Skinny, grey-eyed, with matted reddish hair. Fang tips protruded from the mouth. The boy's nails were pointed and strangely long, and his clothes were a miserable semblance of a suit - tattered rags, through the holes in which a thin, dirty body was visible.



The boy said that he was the son of a priest. And his name is Jean Grenier. He made a deal with the Devil, sold his immortal soul master of the dark forces. And in return got the opportunity to turn around wolf. To do this, you need to pull on a special skin that he provided with Devil. And in order to take on a human form, use the magic ointment.

Jean did it to eat children. And teenagers, especially delicious and tender young girls. And with a few he already managed deal with.

When the girls returned home, they told about the meeting parents. They waved it off: what other wolves and werewolf boys? All this fantasies of impressionable teenagers. But then we decided to turn to guardians of the law.



The boy was interrogated. Jean did not hide anything. He He said that he ran away from home after the death of his mother. Tried to earn day work, but was too weak for this and could not cope. Once I met a man in the forest who offered him a way out, gave wolfskin and ointment and forced him to sign a contract with blood.



All this could pass for youthful fantasies or delirium mentally ill, but Jean described in detail the cases of the disappearance of children and teenagers that really took place. He gave signs of the missing and told that he tore and ate them. So ordered the owner - the same man from the forest.

However, the confession was easily explained: the boy dangled surrounding villages, when looking for a job, heard all the latest news, including with regards to the disappearances of people that the public embellished with non-existent details for greater horror.



But then Poirier stepped in. Margarita stated that I saw with my own eyes how Jean turned into a wolf - the same one small in size and atypical suit. And can confirm it under oath.

At that time, the French courts had already ceased to consider crimes associated with lycanthropy as mystical. who consider themselves werewolves accused suffered mental illness. And needed treatment not punishment. This happened to Jean (fortunately for him, but he could go to the fire). The boy because of his ill health and stupidity sent to confinement in a monastery. Where, under the supervision of the brothers, he must was to work, to pray, to possibly become healthy.



The aforementioned judge visited Grenier in the monastery 7 years after the incident. The guy was thin, looked younger than his age, behaved very constrainedly. Tips tolykov really stuck out from under the lip, and the nails were long and pointed and resembled animal claws. Then Grenier told Pierre de Lancre this story. stating that during this time, the Lord visited him twice and promised that he would soon receive freedom and be able to sow fear and death throughout the country in the form of wolf.

Grenier did not wait for the fulfillment of the Devil's promises: the guy died in monastery six months after the conversation with the judge and was interred.



Although ... Who knows: after all, the werewolf could just change the place deployment and roam the ground, periodically attacking the villagers and dragging them into the forest, where they found their death and could no longer tell about a strange skinny wolf of an unusual color.