The Beast of Gevaudan

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I have been fascinated with this tale since seeing "Brotherhood of the Wolf" many years ago!🐺🦁👻

I love the detail of the bulls charging the animal to protect the woman herding them.

Being a hunter myself, I doubt it was a "normal" wolf. This thing was something else

When the Director's cut for Brotherhood of the Wolf (Le Pact De Wolf in French) came out they included a bonus DVD with an interview with an Author of a book on The Beast of Gevaudan. After doing a lot of research he determined that The Beast was a wolf/dog hybred. The animal was trained by a member of a witches coven to kill the unsuspecting on the road or countryside. The reason the killing stopped briefly is that its owner/trainer was in prison. Once released though the Beast began to kill again until it was killed.

Kudos for your good french pronunciation, for one. For two, what I find most fascinating is that the Beast of Gévaudan is possibly the only cryptid which existence is historically indisputable.

3:23 Medieval Art Giving people getting their scalp bitten off the expression of someone who just realized they left the stove on since 476 AD

One of my favourite European stories! Love that you've covered it :)

It’s really cool getting the lore. The show teen wolf used this story as a plot point. Pretty cool! Awesome work!

Personally I always thought there were multiple beasts, some of the attacks were probably just ordinary wolves who's attacks normally would have been ignored but they were lumped in with the beast. There also might have been a cereal killer operating in the area. I think there likely was some kind of abnormal animal be it an escapee from a menagerie or some kind of wolf dog hybrid but it wasn't responsible for every attack.

AH! I heard of this story from a different channel, but I had hoped sometime you'd do this story as well. I usually learn more with this channel, than I do others at times. Not to say that the channel I heard this myth from originally did a bad job, they did good in their own right. I just appreciate learning more on a topic in general. Such as I personally did not know about the werewolf trials. I've heard, of course, of the witch trials but not werewolf ones. Always happy to watch, listen, and learn from your videos. Thank you!

But thanks to the show "Teen Wolf" the truth and identity of the Beast of Gevaudan is finally revealed, courtesy of Gerard Argent who's family ancestry is involved in hunting the beast down and he revealed that the Beast is in fact the older brother of his ancestor Marie-Jeanne Argent, (née Valet) a.k.a. The Maid Of Gevaudan, Sebastian Valet, and the reason for the Beast's identity to be both a mystery and unknown is because Marie-Jeanne punished him by via damnatio memoriae, and they erased everything about her older brother being the infamous Beast from burning every contract, letter, and document with Sebastien's name on them to repossessing his belongings, and even made-up different stories about the Beast of Gevaudan that I've just witnessed in this video as part of the damnatio memoriae punishment to ensure that every trace of his existence had been destroyed. But it's a shame that Marie-Jeanne didn't count on Marcel who planned to revive Sebastian and using damnatio memoriae as a form of reversal spell to help him remember who he is and what he has become before his death at the hands of his sister while creating and of course finding a suitable host for his spirit in the form of a genetic chimera and succeeded until Scott McCall killed him once and for all after with the same pike that Marie-Jeanne used to killed him now in the form of a sword-cane right after Lydia used her voice through via her Banshee Powers to separate The Beast's spirit from his host.

Longer videos please I love all of them

Just got done binging The Case Study of Vanitas; this creature is a huge part of one of the arcs!

Love this story what a time to be alive. Being a part of a group who's hunting myths that truly did exist and was real enough to hunt and be hunted

Teen Wolf brought me here 💛😊

That was a good one! Loving your channel!

I did an biographical essay on La Bete in my Senior year in High School A+. I have so much fascination with its origin and the causation of it's existence. But the best part is it was real.

The way this beast was described with reddish fur & black stripes & long thin tail & having a bone crushing bite, loud roar etc, I suspect it was a Bengal tiger.

Shamefully late to the comments on this one, but it deserves love - belated or not. :) This was an area of folklore that I was not previously familiar with, but as always, you did a fantastic job covering it. Great little plug at the beginning on the werewolf trials. That's an area of history that I think gets overshadowed by the witch hunts and trials, but is just as interesting (and tragic). You delivered a delightfully chilling final note on this video - perfectly fit the subject tone and atmosphere. Will definitely be coming back to this one for writing inspiration!