Peter Stupp was a German farmer who was executed in 1589 for killing and eating fourteen children, along with two pregnant women and their fetuses. He claimed to be a practitioner of black magic and a werewolf. He stated at trial that the devil had given him a belt of wolf-hide that allowed him to transform. The woodcuts of his execution are among the first portrayals of the werewolf in art.
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
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