Wolf of Ansbach

The Wolf of Ansbach (also Werewolf of Ansbach ) was a man-eating wolf that attacked in 1685 by an unknown number of people in Ansbach.

History

Probably due to lack of the wild wolf-men began to attack. Within a quarter of a year, two or three children were killed. Some of the citizens of Ansbach believed that the late Michael Pfleger fraudulent light was transformed into a wolf as punishment. It was said that he had watched at his own funeral and would appear at night as a werewolf wrapped in a white cloth. In any case, the citizens were convinced that this animal was possessed by the devil.

The wolf fell in the pursuit of a chicken in a wolf pit, a covered with brushwood well and was killed there by the citizens. After the display of the carcass of the wolf 's fur was peeled off. The body was fitted with a face made ​​of cardboard, covered with wig and cloak and hung on a specially built gallows at Nuremberg mountain near Ansbach.

Poems were written about the wolf at that time, which provide information about the wolf and his alleged actions: