This is an article about the Beast of Gevaudan and how it impacted people around that time.

The Beast of Gevaudan is a mythical creature that was held responsible for at least 60 animal-attack deaths in 1760s France. Some reports place the death toll over 100. However, there has been a difficulty in proving that more about 60 of the cases.

If there was a real animal behind these sightings and reports, it is obscured by a great deal of folklore. According to the locals they believed it was a werewolf, or more specifically a sorcerer who shapeshifted into a monstrous predator in order to feed on human “sarka” (=flesh). It was supposed to be bulletproof as well, until the day that someone tried a silver bullet, which since then has began the superstition that “only a silver bullet would be able to penetrate a werewolf’s skin and have them die.”

Descriptions of the Beast tend to vary so much. Most researchers believe that there had to be at least two of such creatures. If the panic wasn’t causing the populace to incorporate any large animal into such sightings.

The color of the Beast’s fur was especially variable. Sometimes it was considered to be fiery red with a large gray patch, or red with faint stripes along the back, just like a tiger. Other times, it had black and white patches spotted over its body, with no trace of red. Rarely, it had colors or patterns that didn’t incorporate red,black or white.

If people were supposed to add all the differing description and then create a composite description out of all these characteristics that were mentioned with consistency and by the most witnesses.

The Beast is described as a quadruped about the size of a horse. It reminds witnesses as a hybrid of the following: panther, hyena, wolf and panther all at once. It has a long wolf-like or pig-like snout, lined with quite large teeth. Its ears are small and round lying close to the head. Its neck is elongated and quite strong. The tail somewhat resembles the long tail of a panther, but it is so thick and strong that the Beast uses it as a weapon, in order to knock men and animals down with like in a form of a double-edged whip and sword. Anyone that was struck by the tail reports that it would hit with considerable force. The feet of the Beast are the hardest to describe. Some would even say that it has cloven hooves, or that eagh digit is ripped with a hoof. Others say that the claws were so heavy, thick and formidable that they would merely resemble hooves.