He was just a German farmer who said he wanted to be a werewolf. Who had “confessed” (under torture) to making a pact with the devil...

 

He was just a farmer who said he wanted to be a werewolf. Who had “confessed” (under torture) to making a pact with the devil—as well as to killing people and having sexual relations with a beautiful demon.

German townspeople didn’t view Peter Stump as a tortured crackpot. Long before big-screen tales on Professor Lupin, Harry Potter, and the just-released “Werewolf by Night!”, many people viewed werewolves as real (shown above, an engraving of werewolf-induced carnage). After a 1500s version of a “trial of the century,” Stump was convicted, skinned, impaled, and burned at the stake.