La Bête Du Gévaudan
 
        In 1764 something began hunting and killing humans in the Gevaudan, now  the department of Lozere.  There were an estimated 210 attacks, with 113  dead and about 49 injured.  One will note the ratio of dead to  wounded.  About 98 of those killed were eaten.  This statue of  Marie-Jeanne Valet by Philip Kaeppelin sums up the whole thing quite  nicely.   https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/marie-jeanne-valet-vs-the-beast-of-gevaudan                  It did not look like this.               Or this.             And it sure did not look like this terrifying image from the movie  Brotherhood of the Wolf, which was most enjoyable, entertaining, and  historically accurate with the general look of the whole thing. Some of the pictures drawn at the time do resemble this thing. See what I mean?                This is what the beast looked like.  No, perhaps not.  It is now thought  that the beast was a lion, which would explain a lot.  It could have  esc...
 
 
