Werewolf Chronology
BCE 28-1000
1022-1299 1300-1399
1400-1500 1501-1600
1601-1764 1765-1900
1901-1999
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28
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Jesus
of Nazareth performs a successful exorcism on two werewolf/ghoul-like
creatures who live among the dead in the cemetery outside of Gadarenes on
the shore of the sea of Galilee.
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55
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Simon
Magus, a great magician, attempts to usurp the role of Jesus in the early
Christian movement by claiming to be the true Messiah. It is recorded that
he has the power to transform himself into a variety of animal and human
shapes and to accomplish miracles. He soon runs afoul of Peter and the
other disciples.
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150
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Apuleius'
Golden Ass records the poet's travels to Thessaly where he beholds
a wide assortment of magical practices and the transformation of humans
into animals after he, himself, is changed into an ass.
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175
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Pausanias,
a Greek traveler, geographer, and author, visits Arcadia and sees the
Lycanian werewolves.
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c.410
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In
his City of God, the great clergyman St. Augustine relates the account of
certain sorceresses in the Alps who give their unsuspecting victims a
special kind of cheese that transforms them into beasts of burden.
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435
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St.
Patrick arrives in Ireland and discovers that among his flock are many
families of werewolves.
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650
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Paulus
Aegineta describes "melancholic lycantropia" as a black and
dismal frame of mind that causes some people to leave their homes and to
wander the cemeteries, taking refuge among the tombstones. As these
lycanthropes become increasing melancholy, they see themselves as
werewolves.
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725
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The
approximate date for the authorship of Beowulf, the earliest extant poem
in a modern European language. Although the text is written in Old
English, it depicts the struggles of a Viking champion, a likely member of
a boar cult, against a monster.
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731
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Venerable
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England describes a host of
were-animals that haunt the night.
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774
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The
Chronicles of Denys of Tell-Mahre describe the wolflike monsters that
terrorized the region that is known today as Iraq.
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840
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Agobard,
the Archbishop of Lyons, writes in his Liber contra insulam vulgi
opinionem of the evil demons of the mountains that appear as manbeasts.
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872
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906
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930
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1000
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1022
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The
first fully attested burning of a heretic takes place in Orleans.
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BCE 28-1000
1022-1299 1300-1399
1400-1500 1501-1600
1601-1764 1765-1900
1901-1999 |
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