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REPORTED WERE AND WEREWOLF CASES IN HISTORY

75,000 BC
Earliest human altars, including evidence of prehistoric bear-cult.

10,000 BC
The domestication of the dog

6,000 BC
Catal Huyuk cave-drawings depict leopard men hunting

2,000 BC
Epic of Gilamesh written down (first literary evidence of werewolves)

850 BC
Odyssey written down (including werewolf beliefs)

500 BC
Scythians recorded as beliving the Neuri to be werewolves

400 BC
Damarchus, Arcadian werewolf, said to have won medals at olympia

100 - 75 BC
Virgil's eight ecologue (first witnesed voluntary transformation of a werewolf

55 AD
Petronius, Satyricon

150 AD
Apuleius, Metamorphosis composed

170 AD
Pausanias visits Arcadia and hears of Lykanian werewolves and rites

432 AD
St. Patrick arrives in Ireland

600 AD
Saint Albeus (Irish) said to have been suckled by wolves, and to be a werewolf

617 AD
Wolves said to have attacked heretical monks. (not confirmed)

650 AD
Paulus Aegineta describes "melancholic lycanthropia"

900 AD
Hrafnsmal mentions "wolf coats" among the Norwegian Army (werewolves)
Canon Episcopi condems the belief in realty of witches and werewolves as heretics

1020
Frist use of the word "werewulf" recorded in English

1101
Death of Price Vseslav of Polock, alleged as a Ukrainian werewolf

1182 - 1183
Giraldus claims to have discoved Irish werewolf couple

1194 - 1197
Guillaume de Palerne composed

1198
Marie de France composes Bisclavret

1250
Lai de Melion composed

1275 - 1300
Volsungasaga, Germanic werewolf saga, written down

1344
Wolf child of Hesse discovered

1347-1351
Frist major outbreak of the Black Death

1407
Werewolves mentioned during witchcraft trial at Basel

1450
Else of Meerburg accused of riding a wolf

1486
Malleus Maleficarm pubished

1494
Swiss woman tried for riding a wolf

1495
Woman tried for riding a wolf at Lucerne

1521
Werewolves of Poligny burnt to death

1541
Paduan werewolf dies after having arms, legs and head cut off

1550
Witekind interviews self-confessed werewolf at Riga.
Werewolf, Johann Weyer, takes up post of doctor at Cleve

1552
Modern French version of Guillaume pubished at Lyon

1555
Olaus Magnus records strange behavior of Baltic werewolves

1560
First publication of Della Porta, Magiae naturalis

1563
First publication of Weye, De praestigus daemonum

1572
St. Barthomew's Day of Massacre, intesification of French civil war

1573
Gilles Garnier burnt as a werewolf

1575
Trials of the benandanti begain in Friuili (said to be werewolves)(trails will continue for six years)

1580
Rebellion at Romans, said to be lead by a werewolf

1584
Reginald Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft published

1588
Alleged date of Auvergne female werewolf's death (Boguet)

1589
Peter Stubb executed as a werewolf at Cologne

1598
Roulet tried as a werewolf, his sentance commuted
"Werewolf of Chalons" executed in Paris, public execution
Gandillon family burnt alive as werewolves in the Jura

1602
2nd edition of Bouget, Discours des sorcies

1603
Jean Grenier tried as werewolf and is sentenced to life imprisonment

1610
Two women condemned as werewolves at Liege, and burnt alive.
Jean Grenier dies in prison

1614
Webster's Dutchess of Malfi Published

1652
Cromwellian law forbids export of Irish Wolfhounds

1692
The Livonian werewolf Theiss interrogated

1697
Perrault's Contes published, includes "Little Red Riding Hood."

1764
Bete de Gevaudon starts werewolf scare in Auvergne

1796 - 1799
Widespread fear of wolves reported in France. Govement funded wolf killing starts

1797
Victor of Aveyron first seen

1806
French population falls below 2000

1812
Grimm Brothers published their version of "Little Red Riding Hood." No happy endings here. But the wolf lives.

1824
Antoine Leger tried for werewolf crimes and sentenced to life in a lunatic asylum

1828
Death of Victor of Averyon

1830
Souix warriors repoted hunting in wolfskins

1857
Accusations of being "wolf leader" ends in court in St. Gervais for GWM Reynolds
Johann Weyer's book "The Wehr-Wolf" published

1880
Folklorist collects werewolf tale in Picardy

1885
Johann Weyer's book "The Wehr-Wolf" reprinted in Paris

1886
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hide Published

1960
Freud lists Johann Weyer's book as among the most significant ever published

1913
"The Werewolf" Film, using a real wolf in transformation scene

1914
Freud publishes "wolf man" paper

1920
Kamala and Amala, the Orissa wolf children discovered

1932
"Jekyll and Hyde" Film staring Frederic March

1935
"Werewolf of London" Film

1941
"Wolf Man" Flim staring Lauren Chaeny Jr.(I think this is the right actor, if this is wrong, please let me know.[Shadow Wulfs Alpha])

1944
"House of Frakenstein" Film, includes mention of silver bullet for killing of werewolves

1952
Ogburn and Bose, Book on the trail of the Wolf-Children published

1957
"I was a Teenage Werewolf" Film

1972
Shamdeo discovered living among wolves in India

1975
Surawicz and Banta publish first two modern cases of lycanthopy

1979
"An American Werewolf in London" Film includes first four-footed werewolf

1985
The Wolfman arrested and charged as werewolf, sentanced to life in Broadmoor
Death of Shamdeo.
"Teen Wolf" Film

1988
Monsieur X arrested and charged as a werewolf

1990
Werewolf rapist jailed for life
McLean Case 8 full report published

1991
The Wolfman escapes from Broadmoor, remains at large

More information and more recent dates still to be added.

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