| Shape shifters or were-creatures transcend every | | | | made of human flesh, given to him by the devil, |
| major culture from the Aztecs, to the Greeks to the | | | | allowing him to change into a wolf and feed on |
| Scandinavians. The ability of turning from human into | | | | humans. Charged with killing men, women and children |
| animal plays a part in much literature and writings of | | | | over a twenty-five year span, he willfully confessed his |
| the past. However, the most infamous of them all is | | | | entire life to the court. He spoke of murdering his own |
| the werewolf. | | | | son and eating his brains. His tales of feasting on girls in |
| Werewolf legends appeared to have originated in the | | | | the fields while they milked cows caused panic and |
| German countryside around Cologne and Bedburg in | | | | dread in the village. |
| the year 1591. A much different life played out in that | | | | After confessing to the heinous crimes, he was |
| era and the wolf stood as a representation of fear | | | | sentenced to death. Put on the wheel, a torture device, |
| and loathing. Many claimed to have found torn limbs on | | | | they pulled the flesh from his body with red, hot |
| their properties and scores feared to travel in their | | | | pincers. Then, his legs and arms were broken and he |
| surrounding wooded areas, despite little proof that | | | | was eventually beheaded and burned to a heap of |
| wolves attacked people unless they were rabid or | | | | ashes. The investigation also implicated his mistress |
| starving. | | | | and his daughter as accomplices. They were burned |
| One infamous case of arrest and trial of a werewolf | | | | alive that day with Peter on October 31, 1589. |
| was Peter Stubbe. He allegedly held a special strap | | | | |