Part I

"If the loup-garou were only a natural wolf, why then, you see” — the mayor cleared his throat — “you see we should think nothing of it; but, M. le Curé, it is a fiend, a worse than fiend, a man-fiend — a worse than man-fiend, a man-wolf-fiend!”

—The Book of Were-Wolves: Being an Account of a Terrible Superstition