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
The Mewan Indians call the giant wolf “Too-le-ze” and that is also the name they gave me, but I am not a werwolf, a loup-garou or a Too-le-ze.
From The Black Wolf Pack by Beard, Daniel Carter
The legend of the loup-garou had no place in the land they had entered.
From A Lover in Homespun And Other Stories by Smith, F. Clifford (Frank Clifford)
They had already been informed that if they did not keep still when the lady returned they would be given to the loup-garou and other mythical and traditional terrors of habitant childhood.
From The Peace of Roaring River by Koerner, W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef)
