I'm pretty sure this is new to me. 🐱🐉
I'm pretty sure this is new to me. 🐱🐉
Man-Bear-Pig?
BRAVE AI:
What Was Beast of Gévaudan
The Beast of Gévaudan was a man-eating animal or animals that terrorized the former province of Gévaudan in south-central France between 1764 and 1767, an area now part of the modern-day departments of Lozère and Haute-Loire.
Eyewitnesses described it as being the size of a calf or cow, with a tawny or russet coat, dark streaks or stripes, a long tail ending in a tuft, and formidable teeth and claws.
The creature was said to attack primarily women and children, often decapitating its victims and drinking their blood, with reports indicating over 100 people were killed during the attacks.
While the French government and numerous hunters, including royal huntsmen, attempted to track it down, the creature was not definitively identified, and its true nature remains a subject of debate.
Theories about its identity range from a large wolf or wolf-dog hybrid to a striped hyena, a lion, or even a human perpetrator using an animal, though most historians believe the attacks were likely caused by a pack of wolves infesting the impoverished region.
It’s discussed charmingly in Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Travels With a Donkey in the Cevennes”.
