Record #:

25539

Author(s):

Hardy, Susan

Abstract:

Jay Smith, a UNC professor of history, has been studying the Beast of the Gévaudan. The French have argued about the identity of the eighteenth-century creature that killed more than a hundred people in the southern countryside. Smith suggests that the creature was a wolf, but hunters perpetuated the idea that it was a mythological creature to explain his failures out of fear of shame.

Source:

Endeavors (NoCar LD 3941.3 A3), Vol. 27 Issue 2, Winter 2011, p42-45, il

Subject(s):

Folklore; History--Research; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill