A tantalising snippet for TVL re-readers...
I was reading about werewolves last night, and came across stuff about the Beast of Gevauden. Something that I don't think ever struck me before: it happened in south central France. Not the Auvergne, apparently, but since the army got involved and it was reported in newspapers, I think we might assume that the news also travelled by word-of-mouth.
Lestat was born in 1760 (at least according to this - weird interface, btw; I'm trying to figure out how it works and was just lucky that dates of stuff in early TVL were immediately visible) and the animal was at large from 1764 - 1767, so by the time he fights his own wolves I'd imagine the story would've percolated to become part of the folklore of south central France in general. And I wonder (the Companion is next to a sleeping boyfriend, or I'd check) whether AR was familiar with the story and whether it therefore influenced TVL...
Or did rebness and I already thrash this out while watching Brotherhood of the Wolf, and I just forgot because the after-image of our hysterical explanation of Frankenclaudia to scrr blotted it from memory?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_of_G%C3%A9vaudan
http://www.betedugevaudan.com/
Lestat was born in 1760 (at least according to this - weird interface, btw; I'm trying to figure out how it works and was just lucky that dates of stuff in early TVL were immediately visible) and the animal was at large from 1764 - 1767, so by the time he fights his own wolves I'd imagine the story would've percolated to become part of the folklore of south central France in general. And I wonder (the Companion is next to a sleeping boyfriend, or I'd check) whether AR was familiar with the story and whether it therefore influenced TVL...
Or did rebness and I already thrash this out while watching Brotherhood of the Wolf, and I just forgot because the after-image of our hysterical explanation of Frankenclaudia to scrr blotted it from memory?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_of_G%C3%A9vaudan
http://www.betedugevaudan.com/