loup-garou

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

And has not Jacques told me of how you killed the loup-garou; of how you are hated by Moncrossen, and feared by Creed?

From The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

"Then," stammered Padraig, "it is not true that—that—" "That the loup-garou is abroad in the land?" finished Brother Basil with delicate scorn.

From Masters of the Guild by L. Lamprey

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

Those whom the French called loups-garous were in German termed werewolves.

From The Man-Wolf and Other Tales by Erckmann-Chatrian

"However," muttered the old man, and it was some comfort to the vague aching in his breast to formulate one fact as solid as the heights around, "it is certain that there are loups-garous."

From The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

Everybody knew that the island of Orleans had been from the time of its discovery the abode of loups-garous, sorcerers, and all those uncanny cattle that run in the twilights of the world.

From The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World by Mary Hartwell Catherwood