“…werewolves were indeed the hounds of God ... without their good work the devil would carry off the fruits of the earth and everyone would be deprived as consequence.”

—Thiess of Kaltenbrun during his 1692 trial as the Livonian werewolf, from The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by Carlo Ginzburg