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« on: December 26, 2010, 03:20:45 am »
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Hello All

There is an old nursery rhyme who's afraid of the big bad wolf?  Today its origins seems like a relic from a bygone age lost mists of time.

The following story is not a treasure mystery but still a mystery no less and a very intriguing mystery that has haunted the remote areas south of France since the events of 1764-1767.

The Beast of G?vaudan is a name given to man-eating wolf-like animals alleged to have terrorized the former province of G?vaudan (modern day d?partement of Loz?re and part of Haute-Loire).

In the Margeride Mountains in south-central France from 1764 to 1767 over an area stretching 90 by 80 kilometres (56 by 50 mi). The beasts were consistently described by eyewitnesses as having formidable teeth and immense tails. Their fur had a reddish tinge, and was said to have emitted an unbearable odour.

They killed their victims by tearing at their throats with their teeth. The number of victims differs according to source. De Beaufort (1987) estimated 210 attacks, resulting in 113 deaths and 49 injuries; 98 of the victims killed were partly eaten.

Another author Derek Brockis claims 25 women, 68 children and 6 men were killed, with over 30 others injured.One thing for sure an enormous amount of manpower and resources was used in the hunting of the animals, including the army, conscripted civilians, several nobles, and a number of royal huntsmen.

All animals operated outside of ordinary wolf packs, though eyewitness accounts indicate that they sometimes were accompanied by a smaller female, which did not take part in the attacks. The story is a popular subject for cryptozoologists.

The animals was final tracked down and killed and one was stuffed and displayed at French court.

But the mystery remains what were they?

Rare type of wolf or some thing else?

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« Reply #1 on: December 26, 2010, 07:44:15 am »
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Interesting Story there is a jaw/ mandable drawing of said creature on page 3 of this site.

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       it was def a wolf cannine in nature / just larger than most.
best guess is a wolf hybrid / deformed wolf either way if it was as big as depicted in some of the drawings,
it was huge compared to a standard wolf.

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« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2011, 01:02:56 am »
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Hell all

Thanks HardLuck, this is the typical strange French story. I add an another site link below:

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« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2011, 03:52:22 am »
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Hello Luc

Thanks for the interesting link  Great

It has been a story that has always interested me when I first read it many years ago.

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« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2011, 04:58:07 pm »
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Hello,
It's interesting to see that, at this time,  people were used to see wolves but called it "The Beast". Idea Why??
Some people think it was a hyena, size and colors seem to be ok.
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« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2011, 08:44:02 pm »
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Hello Oli

I tend to think that it was not a wolf but another type of Animal perhaps hyena or hybrid of two species. but if that was the case they would not be able breed. Whatever the animal it was efficient enough to hunt down lone prey.

Wolfs like most dogs tend to be pack hunter and not a lone hunter. Since there was allegedly two shot they could of been part of a litter of hybrids?

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« Reply #6 on: February 07, 2011, 12:26:49 am »
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In my turn to ask a question.
In case the beast of Gevaudan is a hyena, it begs the question: what was she doing in France because its implementation is generally Africa mainly desert areas along the west coast of Africa, divided throughout Southern Africa, it now survives in arid areas of Namibia in the Kalahari. Marginal presence in the south-western Angola.

In Morocco hyenas are used for sessions of Black Magic

The hyena is primarily a scavenger hunt that occasionally smaller animals it (hares, birds, insects ...). Fruit and carrion supplement their diet. It has powerful jaws that allow it to easily crush bones, which can be digested.

With an exceptional sense of smell that enables it to locate carrion at great distances, the animal spends most of his nights to move. Opportunist, she hides her food when she has too!

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« Reply #7 on: February 07, 2011, 02:52:08 am »
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Let's remind the hole story:  Wise
Antoine Chastel was prisonner and slave of "the Barbaresques", former french word to say "maghreb". His job was to capture and raise wild animals there. He was castrated too.
Why ,when he could escape, would'nt he came with a hyena he was breeding with a revenge desire?
There is (tranlated) a description of the beast :
A fantastic animal, of the size of a calf or a donkey; he had the reddish hair, the big head, rather similar to that of a pig, the always gaping mouth, the short and straight ears, the white and very wide breast, the tail long and supplied with the white end. Some people said that hishinderlegs were furnished with clogs as those of a horse.

Other people think the Beast could have been a male Baboon.

Whatever, when she was killed, in june 1767, she was shown in the villages and brought to Versailles in August. Because of the decay and smell, nobody in Versailles could see it and it was burried ....

This is a new treasure to discover in Versailles: the Beast's bones..

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« Reply #8 on: February 07, 2011, 05:03:42 am »
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Hello All

Luc thank you for your insight into the habits of the  Hyena. On second thought perhaps it was not a hyena because according to accounts this beast clearly stalked and attacked living prey. 

The beast had more of a habit of like a big cat like a tiger or a panther. Wolves and dogs are pack hunters. Big cats are hunters by stealth, Wolves and dogs run their victims down.

Mysterious and interesting all the same.

oli thank you for interesting version of the fate of dead beast. I have read another version that was actually stuffed and displayed as a curiosity but disappeared in the French revolution perhaps destroyed by the angry mob storming the Palace of Versailles?

And yes it would be a fascinating relic and object of great scientific vale if it could be relocated bones or stuffed animal.

A real mystery and great treasure in itself.

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« Reply #9 on: February 07, 2011, 06:03:26 am »
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Hello HardLuck and Oli

Another story of a beast (looks identical in effect to that of Gevaudan). That this was in 1792 in Italy.

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