a friend of mine was over the other day and we watched a movie about some beast in france in the 1600s that killed alot of people.
i was wondering if anyone has ever heard anything about this thing.

i horribly did not get to finish the movie b/c my computer sucks lol and no dvd player. but i really want to read up on it but have no clue what to look for.
any thoughts or stories ?

Think it might be some sort of werewolf type thing,sorry a bit glib on that front.

You mean the Beast of Gévaudan? I believe there are a number of threads on this topic already, but here is the wiki.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_of_G%C3%A9vaudan

The film 'Brotherhood of the Wolf' was centered on the legend of the Beast of Gevaudan.

there are tons of threads on this topic, and tons of sites as well. Or if your feeling froggy you can actually go there and see the revolver that killed it and the plaque honoring the victims. Might want to google it now that you know what it was.

wow this is awesome, thanks for bringing this up. never heard of it

Just don't believe the films version too much....... on the dvd there is extra features one of which talks to an expert on wolves in that area. This man had also done quite a bit of study on the subject, now that's worth watching.

Iv'e heard of that wolf-like creature. The Beast of Gevaduan. the phenomenon of that still has me wondering......
But my guess is that the killings are not made up, and that a beast has been prowling the countryside.

yeap thats what i mean ! thanks so much i did not know the name of it

that would be awesome to see , i will look it up now i know the name of it

thanks guys !

No problem, aestheteka forums have a picture of a statue of someone fending off the beast, but Im not sure where the statue is actually located

found the statue.



source: http://www.newanimal.org/beastgev.htm

was brotherhood of the wold a good movie? (not based on judging from the facts just the movie itself). the documentary after the movie sounds nice

dam this aNimal. been reading alot about it last night, seems to be very intelligent to outsmart the legions of dragoons. what a beast

Hell yeah, it was a wicked beast, I dont think anything else has ever been like it

its like straight out of a r rated horror movie

So this thing ate the French?

maybe they smelled better back then!

Ok j/k dont wanna get anyone mad

The killings were not made up. Their all pretty well documented, The beast killed over a hundred people as far as i know. Although i don't think it's very common for a werewolf to be present during the daytime , Although there are some that the older they are they can change anytime they want. Also a young girl that was the sole survivor of an attack said that it had hands like a man and it's arms were jointed like a persons would be. There are alot of non-believers of werewolves from what i've seen and that's fine , I am and always will be a firm believer in them simply because it's easy to sit back and say Oh , They were hallucinating or they were nuts or what they saw was a person with a medical condition. Ijust take into all the hundreds of sightings and accounts into consideration and say well all these people couldn't have been nuts because there is just too much stange stuff in this world to just write them off as just legend or myth.

I think that werewolves were shaman seduced by the dark powers while summoning animal spirits, the reason they appeared as monsters to the people was more of a metaphysically projected personifacation of their spirit, or that of the dark spirit that possessed them. I dont beleive that people can physically, biologically turn into animals, but I do beleive that one can project themselves as an animal to those who see them. Beleive it or not I have done this on occasion, not that I would attack people. This particular beast however was never seen or reported to change forms, aside from the differences from one sighting to another, which would further the beleif that the beast form was a psychic projection.

It is however just as easy to say that it was a mythical creature to with only unreliable here say as evidence where as the physical and mental dispositiions are very well documented and are actually proven to be real.
The most obvious answer is nearly always the correct one when looking at evidence. In these cases you would have to go with mental illness and hairiness as the is no scientific evidence for werewolves at all.

Oh i agree that their are people out there that have medical conditions such as excess hair and such but what i was referring to was along the lines of the beast of bray road and sightings like that where people have come out and said that it had hands like a man and the arms and legs are jointed just like a persons would be , And one woman that paid atettion to the arms said that they were very defined like person that worked out to me that's pretty hard to discount. But people are going to believe what they want.

Managed to get the movie mentioned in this topic finally! It's called 'Brotherhood of the Wolf'. It's a French movie, dubbed in English. Watched it last night, pretty good popcorn movie, good fight scenes, but it didn't say much about the beast, except that it wasn't a free roaming wild creature, but actually it was bred in captivity and set loose occasionally to feed on the locals. Added incentive to watch the movie (for the guys anyway) Monica Bellucci is in it.

The Beast of Gévaudan was probably just a very big wolf. Still interesting, though.



Perhaps it had a taste for horse, snails and frogs legs? It couldn't stroll into a restaurant and get a few to take away, so it sniffed out French people who'd eaten them recently and ate them instead.

mmmmm escargot. I love snails, the Italian resteraunt by my GF's house in Germany does a lovely baked snail dish.

*retches* I can't even touch snails. I'm interested in them and all, but...ugh.

Well, I can pick them them up by the shell, but not the slimy bit.

Im sure you shouldn't touch the slimy part, the salt in your skin might be very painful to them, even kill them.

It's a good job that don't touch the slimy part then, innit?

definately, I wouldn't recommend licking it either!

Dunno baked in gorgonzola they are loverly.

Oh with cheese!

When you said the snails you ate were baked, I thought you meant they got them really stoned first.

Hahaha

Lol. For some reason the idea of a high snail is really funny.

could it possibly have been about the wolf beast of gevaudan or gevadaun?not sure how its spelled

Animal Planet also did a show about this last year, I'm sure you can go to their web site and find out more, from what i recall they said it was a huge dog that had been trained to attack and kill people?.....

I can't help hearing the Motorhead song "Eat the Rich" but instead of rich I hear "Eat the French".

I wish I hadn't read that...Now I'm singing the Ace of Snails...

Tu n'aimes pas les Françaises?

Or are you just randomly saying stuff about eating the French?

Non.

And it's not random. This whole topic was about a beast that eats the French.

Come on baby eat the French
Bite down on le son of a ....

Well you get the idea.

It's a good song.

This "beast" obviously surrendered looooooooooooong ago.

La Bete is one of my favourite mysteries. Around the time of the killings quite a few large dogs with attitude were introduced to the area. I think I posted my research up on here somewhere about the breeds introduced to France around the time and ones that would be likely to have made a hybrid.

I believe she was a wolf/ dog hybrid and under the control of a human. What creeps me out is stories that people came out with saying they'd hear a nice outside of their cottage and La Bete would be standing at their window still looking in.

Could have even been an escapee from a private collection, like a hyeena or something.



Haha, reminds me of the old Guinness advert with the racing snails! Dunno why, though... Think is, a stoned snail would be even slower than a normal one, and probably eat twice as much of your prize cabbages. Some of them you can watch out for I guess, like Helix chavarius which has a burberry shell...




what, like I suppose "Year of the Wolf" as well? But then... that was a real song...

Actually, You know the Misfits did a couple of songs like that, like Frencheaters (French for dinner, French for lunch, French for breakfast French for brunch, French at every single meal why can't we get some Brits? Oi Oi Oi!)

Lets keep in on topic please!

To quote myself: