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 hasn't seen a priest for ten months or so, and he's afraid of the loup-garou, for all I know.

From The Man Who Rocked the Earth by Robert Williams Wood

It might be made by the hilt of a sword; or did a loup-garou ever clatter paw against man's dwelling?

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

The crisp snapping of twigs, succeeded by a rattling of small stones, were caused, not by the pads of the black loup-garou, but by a body weightier and less cowardly.

From The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec by John Trevena

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

"If loups-garous are abroad, also, what is to become of this unhappy land?"

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

"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