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

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 Wood, Robert Williams

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

And “the Gray Master of the Quah-Davic,” as Kane had dubbed him, was no loup-garou, no outcast human soul incarcerate in wolf form, but simply a great Alaskan timber-wolf.

From Kings in Exile by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir