{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Loreplay","title":"The Werewolf Trials ","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2547,"description":"Hey hey, lore-loving weirdos — before Salem, before witch trials became a cultural shorthand for mass hysteria, Europe spent roughly two hundred years putting people on trial for turning into wolves. And executing them. Tens of thousands of them.In this episode of Loreplay, host Dayna Pereira dives into the real, documented, court-certified history of the European werewolf trials — the paranoia, the pamphlets, the torture, the confessions, and the people ground up inside the machinery. We're talking official government decrees authorizing citizens to hunt werewolves (yes, that was a real legal document), the most sensationalized and brutal execution of the sixteenth century, and — the story Dayna cannot stop thinking about — the eighty-year-old man who showed up to his own werewolf trial, admitted everything cheerfully, and walked away with twenty lashes because he was simply too chaotic for the court to deal with.\nPrimary Sources:Anonymous. A True Discourse Declaring the Damnable Life and Death of One Stubbe Peeter. London, 1590. [The only surviving record of the Peter Stumpp case — two copies exist, held at the British Museum and Lambeth Library]Trial transcript of Thiess of Kaltenbrun, Provincial Court of Venden, April 28, 1691. Hofger-Archiv Kriminalakte n. 30 v. J. 1692. First published by Hermann von Bruiningk in Mitteilungen aus der livländischen Geschichte 22 (1924–28): 203–20. English translation by Bruce Lincoln available via University of Chicago Press: press.uchicago.eduBoguet, Henri. Discours des sorciers. Lyon, 1602. [Legal treatise by the Grand Judge who presided over the Gandillon case]Fründ, Johannes. Chronicle of the Valais witch trials, c. 1428–1430. [Earliest documented lycanthropy accusations]Modern Scholarly Works:de Blécourt, Willem, ed. Werewolf Histories. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — The definitive modern academic collection on European werewolf trialsGinzburg, Carlo and Bruce Lincoln. Old Thiess, a Livonian Werewolf: A Classic Case in...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/qrKRCVgS-SidSX8b9CGzZDHhnpF4bwxZyw2FLc5pukw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83MTBl/MDI3MGZkZGE0M2U0/MmJlYjhmNGQ4NjAy/NmY0Ny5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}