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500 BC
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Scythians recorded as believing the Neuri to be werewolves.
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400 BC
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Damarchus, Arcadian werewolf, said to have won boxing medal at Olympics
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100 - 75 BC
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Virgil's eighth ecologue (first voluntary transformation of werewolf)
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55 AC
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Petronius, Satyricon
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170
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Pausanias visits Arcadia and hears of Lykanian werewolf rites
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150
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Apuleius, Metamorphosis composed
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432
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St. Patrick arrives in Ireland
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600
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Saint Albeus (Irish) said to have been suckled by wolves
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617
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Wolves said to have attacked heretical monks
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650
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Paulus Aegineta describes "melancholic lycanthropia"
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900
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Hrafnsmal mentions "wolf coats" among the Norwegian Army Canon Episcopi condems the belief in reality of witches as heretical
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1020
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First use of the word "werewulf" recorded in English
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1101
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Death of Prince Vseslav of Polock, alleged Ukrainian werewolf
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1182 - 1183
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Giraldus claims to have discovered Irish werewolf couple
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1194 - 1197
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Guillaume de Palerne composed
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1198
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Marie de France composes Bisclavret
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1250
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Lai de Melion composed
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1275 - 1300
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Volsungasaga, Germanic werewolf saga, written down
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1344
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Wolf child of Hesse discovered
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1347 - 1351
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First major outbreak of the Black Death
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1407
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Werewolves mentioned during witchcraft trial at Basel
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1450
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Else of Meerburg accused of riding a wolf
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1486
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Malleus Maleficarum published
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1494
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Swiss woman tried for riding a wolf
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1495
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Woman tried for riding a wolf at Lucerne
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1521
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Werewolves of Poligny burnt
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1541
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Paduan werewolf dies after having arms and legs cut off
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1550
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Witekind interviews self-confessed werewolf at Riga Johann Weyer takes up post of doctor at Cleve
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1552
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Modern French version of Guillaume published at Lyon
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1555
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Olaus Magnus records strange behavior of Baltic werewolves
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1560
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First publication of Della Porta, Magiae naturalis
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1563
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First publication of Weyer, De praestigus daemonum
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1572
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St. Bartholomew's Day of Massacre, intensification of French civil war
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1573
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Gilles Garnier burnt as werewolf
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1575
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Trials of the benandanti begin in the Friuili (and will continue for a century)
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1580
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Rebellion at Romans with cannibalistic overtones. Reginald Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft published
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1588
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Alleged date of Auvergne female werewolf (Boguet)
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1589
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Peter Stubb executed as werewolf at Cologne
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1598
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Roulet tried as werewolf, his sentence commuted. "Werewolf of Chalons" executed at Paris. Gandillon family burnt as werewolves in the Jura
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1602
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2nd edition of Bouget, Discours des sorciers
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1603
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Jean Grenier tried as werewolf and is sentenced to life imprisonment
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1610
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Two women condemned as werewolves at Liege Jean Grenier dies
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1614
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Webster's Duchess of Malfi published
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1637
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Famine in Franche-Comte: cannibalism reported
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1652
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Cromwellian law forbids export of Irish wolfhounds
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1692
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The Livonian werewolf Theiss interrogated
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1697
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Perrault's Contes includes "Little Red Riding Hood"
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1701
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De Tournefort sees vampire exhumation
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1764
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Bete de Gevaudon starts werewolf scare in Auvergne
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1796 - 1799
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Widespread fear of wolves reported in France
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1797
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Victor of Aveyron first seen
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1812
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Grimm Brothers publish their version of "Little Red Riding Hood"
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1824
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Antoine Leger tried for werewolf crimes and sentenced to lunatic asylum
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1828
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Death of Victor of Averyon
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1830
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Sioux warriors reported hunting in wolfskins
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1857
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Accusation of being "wolf leader" ends in court in St. Gervais
G. W. M. Reynolds, Wagner the Wehr-Wolf published
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1880
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Folklorist collects werewolf tale in Picardy
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1885
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Johann Weyer's book reprinted at Paris
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1886
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Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde published
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1906
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Freud lists Weyer's book as among ten most significant ever published
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1913
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The Werewolf (film) using real wolf in transformation scene
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1914
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Freud publishes "wolf man" paper
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1920
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Kamala and Amala, the Orissa wolf children, discovered
Right-wing terror group "Operation Werewolf" established in Germany
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1932
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Jekyll & Hyde (film) starring Frederic March
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1935
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Werewolf of London (film)
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1941
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Wolf Man (film) starring Lon Chaney Jr.
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1943 - 1944
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Childhood autism first described LSD discovered
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1944
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House of Frankenstein (film) includes mention of silver bullet
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1951
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Outbreak of ergotism at Pont-Saint-Esprit in France
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1952
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Ogburn & Bose, On the trail of the Wolf-Children published
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1957
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I Was a Teenage Werewolf (film)
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1972
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Shamdeo discovered living among wolves in India
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1975
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Surawicz & Banta publish first two modern cases of lycanthopy
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1979
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"An American Werewolf in London" (film) includes first four-footed werewolf
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1985
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"Death of Shamdeo"
"Teen Wolf" (film)
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1988
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Monsieur X arrested
"McLean Hospital" survey published
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1990
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"Werewolf rapist" jailed
McLean Case 8 full report published
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1991
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"The Wolfman" escapes from Broadmoor
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