loup-garou
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George Rodrigue, who died in 2013, was catapulted to fame by his blue dog paintings, which were based on a Cajun legend called loup-garou.
From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2015
When the show began, patrons viewed a cinema which showed the cheetah, by this time almost as legendary as a loup-garou, retrieving duck and pheasant.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is kin with those creatures of legend, the loup-garou, the vampire.
From She Buildeth Her House by William Wistar Comfort
The legend of the loup-garou had no place in the land they had entered.
From A Lover in Homespun And Other Stories by F. Clifford (Frank Clifford) Smith
So he comes down river, takes his Newport season here at Moisie, and goes to mass and staves off the loup-garou.
From The Man Who Rocked the Earth by Robert Williams Wood
Likewise, one might run into haints, phantasmagorical flaming skulls, duppies, lycanthropic loups-garous and more.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2021
He opens the door and window that have been shut tight against strangers and the loups-garous, the werewolves that stalk the nights of the superstitious.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was late October,—a time which might be called the yearly Sabbath of loups-garous.
From The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
They are the loups-garous; in their bodies ride the spirits of devils, and there they will ride until the bodies die.
From Nomads of the North A Story of Romance and Adventure under the Open Stars by James Oliver Curwood
Of course for every case of real malady many were imputed or charged upon poor creatures, who were driven to madness by groundless charges of witchcraft and sorcery, and being loups-garous in secret.
From The Man-Wolf and Other Tales by Erckmann-Chatrian
