loup-garou
Americannoun
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loups-garous
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George Rodrigue, who died in 2013, was catapulted to fame by his blue dog paintings, which were based on a Cajun legend called loup-garou.
From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2015
When the show began, patrons viewed a cinema which showed the cheetah, by this time almost as legendary as a loup-garou, retrieving duck and pheasant.
From Time Magazine Archive
The habitants, of course, had all their superstitions confirmed, and with a certain respect and refinement of horror added: Here was a loup-garou so crafty as to spare, on occasion!
From Kings in Exile by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
So he comes down river, takes his Newport season here at Moisie, and goes to mass and staves off the loup-garou.
From The Man Who Rocked the Earth by Robert Williams Wood
"Then," stammered Padraig, "it is not true that—that—" "That the loup-garou is abroad in the land?" finished Brother Basil with delicate scorn.
From Masters of the Guild by L. Lamprey
Likewise, one might run into haints, phantasmagorical flaming skulls, duppies, lycanthropic loups-garous and more.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2021
He opens the door and window that have been shut tight against strangers and the loups-garous, the werewolves that stalk the nights of the superstitious.
From Time Magazine Archive
Those whom the French called loups-garous were in German termed werewolves.
From The Man-Wolf and Other Tales by Erckmann-Chatrian
"If loups-garous are abroad, also, what is to become of this unhappy land?"
From The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
They are the loups-garous; in their bodies ride the spirits of devils, and there they will ride until the bodies die.
From Nomads of the North A Story of Romance and Adventure under the Open Stars by James Oliver Curwood
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